蜾

蜾

蜾 U+873E, 蜾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-873E ← 蜽 [U+873D] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜿 → [U+873F]

Translingual

Han character

蜾 (radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈田木 (LIWD), four-corner 5619₄, composition ⿰虫果)

References

• KangXi: page 1088, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33208
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2862, character 1
• Unihan data for U+873E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜾
variant forms		𧒘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guǒ (guo³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: guǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛˇ
    • Wade–Giles: ko³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guuo
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwo²
    • Yale: gwó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwo²
    • Guangdong Romanization: guo²
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kuɑ^X/▼

Rime
Character	蜾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古火切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/kuɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaX/
Li Rong	/kuɑX/
Wang Li	/kuɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guǒ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤorʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kloːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ kwaX ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁorʔ/ (*kˁorʔ.rˁorʔ, redup. infixation < *kˁorʔ ?)
English	蜾蠃 kwaX.lwaX a kind of wasp
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜾
Reading #	1/1
No.	4772
Phonetic component	果
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	果
Old Chinese	/*kloːlʔ/

Definitions

蜾

1. Only used in 蜾蠃 (guǒluǒ, “potter wasp”).

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Japanese

Kanji

蜾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): か (ka), ら (ra)
• Kun: じがばち (jigabachi)

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Korean

Hanja

蜾 • (gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune–Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

1. Ammophila sabulosa, red-banded sand wasp