蝎

蝎

See also: 蠍

蝎 U+874E, 蝎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-874E ← 蝍 [U+874D] CJK Unified Ideographs 蝏 → [U+874F]

Translingual

Han character

蝎 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈日心女 (LIAPV), four-corner 5612₇, composition ⿰虫曷)

1. scorpion
2. bedbug

References

• KangXi: page 1088, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33254
• Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2870, character 3
• Unihan data for U+874E

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蝎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
愒	*kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤	*qaːds
靄	*qaːds, *qaːd
餲	*qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝	*qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭	*kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈	*ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲	*kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛	*kaːd
輵	*kaːd
獦	*klaːd, *rab
渴	*kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑	*kʰaːd
暍	*qʰaːd, *qad
曷	*ɡaːd
褐	*ɡaːd
鶡	*ɡaːd
毼	*ɡaːd
蝎	*ɡaːd
鞨	*ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏	*qaːd
齃	*qaːd
堨	*qaːd
擖	*kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬	*kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅	*kʰrad
藒	*kʰrad
竭	*ɡrad, *ɡad
碣	*ɡrad, *ɡad
羯	*kad
鍻	*kad
歇	*qʰad
蠍	*qʰad
謁	*qad

Etymology 1

trad.		蝎
simp. #		蝎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hot³, hot⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Yale: hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hot³, hot⁶
    • Yale: hot, hoht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hot⁸, hot⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hod³, hod⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːt̚³/, /hɔːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɑt̚/

Rime
Character	蝎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	寒 (63)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡葛切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦat̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɑt̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hot6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝎
Reading #	1/1
No.	5034
Phonetic component	曷
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	曷
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːd/

Definitions

蝎

1. insect that eats wood

Compounds

磨蝎

蝎蝎螫螫

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝎 – see 蠍 (“scorpion”). (This character, 蝎, is the simplified and variant form of 蠍.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Compounds

蛇蝎 蝎子

蝎虎

蝎蝎螫螫

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝎 – see 虹 (“rainbow; primary rainbow; bridge; etc.”). (This character, 蝎, is a variant form of 虹.)

References

• “蝎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

蝎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. scorpion

Readings

• Go-on: がち (gachi)
• Kan-on: かつ (katsu)
• Kun: すくもむし (sukumomushi), さそり (sasori)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蛇蝎(だかつ) (dakatsu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蝎
さそり Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 蝎 – see the following entry.

【蠍さそり】H [noun] a scorpion (any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones) Alternative spellings 蝎, サソリ

(This term, 蝎, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja

蝎 • (gal) (hangeul 갈, revised gal, McCune–Reischauer kal, Yale kal)

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Readings 1

• Name : 전갈(scorpion), 빈대(bedbug)
• Sound : 갈 (gal)

Readings 2

• Name : 나무굼뱅이(the larva of a longicorn)
• Sound : 할 (hal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝎: Hán Nôm readings: hạt, rết, rít, yết

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