蝤蠐

蝤蠐

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (蝤蠐)		蝤	蠐
simp. (蝤蛴)		蝤	蛴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiúqí

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˊ ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau⁴ cai⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): chhiû-chê

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiúqí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ ㄑㄧˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyouchyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cau⁴ cai⁴
    • Yale: chàuh chàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau⁴ tsai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo⁴ cei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹ t͡sʰɐi̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiû-chê
    • Tâi-lô: tshiû-tsê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiuzee
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiu²⁴⁻²² t͡se²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡zɨu  d͡zei/▼

Rime
Character	蝤	蠐
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	自秋切	徂奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨu/	/d͡zei/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziu/	/d͡zei/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ziəu/	/d͡zɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zuw/	/d͡zɛj/
Li Rong	/d͡ziu/	/d͡zei/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭəu/	/d͡ziei/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯ə̯u/	/d͡zʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiú	qí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɡlu  zliːl|zlil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiú
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]u/
English	蝤蠐 tree-grub
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	蝤	蠐	蠐
Reading #	2/2	1/2	2/2
No.	15561	10055	10072
Phonetic component	酉	齊	齊
Rime group	幽	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	酋	齊	茨
Old Chinese	/*sɡlu/	/*zliːl/	/*zlil/
Notes			原作蟲在齊中，注又音疾兮切，齊韻正作此體

Noun

蝤蠐

1. (literary) larva of the longhorn beetle

   • 手如柔荑，膚如凝脂，領如蝤蠐，齒如瓠犀。螓首蛾眉，巧笑倩兮，美目盼兮。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     手如柔荑，肤如凝脂，领如蝤蛴，齿如瓠犀。螓首蛾眉，巧笑倩兮，美目盼兮。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shǒu rú róutí, fū rú níngzhī, lǐng rú qiúqí, chǐ rú hùxī. Qínshǒu éméi, qiǎoxiào qiàn xī, měimù pàn xī. [Pinyin]

     Her fingers were like the blades of the young white-grass;
     Her skin was like congealed ointment;
     Her neck was like the tree-grub;
     Her teeth were like melon seeds;
     Her forehead cicada-like; her eyebrows like [the antenne of] the silkworm moth;
     What dimples, as she artfully smiled!
     How lovely her eyes, with the black and white so well defined!

2. (literary, figuratively) the soft and smooth neck of beautiful women

Derived terms

蝤蠐項／蝤蛴项 蝤蠐領／蝤蛴领

蝤蠐頸／蝤蛴颈 領如蝤蠐／领如蝤蛴