螻

螻

See also: 蝼

螻 U+87BB, 螻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87BB ← 螺 [U+87BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 螼 → [U+87BC]

Translingual

Han character

螻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈中田女 (LILWV), four-corner 5514₄, composition ⿰虫婁)

References

• KangXi: page 1095, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33515
• Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2885, character 1
• Unihan data for U+87BB

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Chinese

trad.		螻
simp.		蝼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樓	*ɡ·roː
摟	*roː, *ro
耬	*roː
僂	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻	*roː
髏	*roː
蔞	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻	*roː
艛	*ɡ·roː
膢	*roː, *ro
廔	*roː
嘍	*roː, *roːʔ
瞜	*roː, *ro
簍	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜	*roː, *ro
褸	*roː, *roʔ
遱	*roː
謱	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁	*roːʔ, *roʔ
甊	*roːʔ
塿	*roːʔ
漊	*roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤	*roːs, *ro
瘻	*roːs, *ro
擻	*sloːʔ
藪	*sloːʔ
籔	*sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀	*ro
縷	*roʔ
屢	*ros
數	*sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨	*klos
窶	*ɡloʔ
貗	*ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lóu (lou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lóu
    • Wade–Giles: lou²
    • Yale: lóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lou
    • Palladius: лоу (lou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /loʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lau⁴
    • Yale: làuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ləu/

Rime
Character	螻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ləu/
Pan Wuyun	/ləu/
Shao Rongfen	/ləu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləw/
Li Rong	/lu/
Wang Li	/ləu/
Bernard Karlgren	/lə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*roː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	螻
Reading #	1/1
No.	8458
Phonetic component	婁
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	樓
Old Chinese	/*roː/

Definitions

螻

1. ^† mole cricket

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 螻蛄 (“mole cricket”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		螻蛄, 𧕱, 螻螲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		螻蛄
Mandarin	Beijing	蝲蝲蛄
	Taiwan	螻蛄, 土狗
	Harbin	蝲蝲蛄
	Yantai (Muping)	螻蛄, 海陸空 humorous
	Jinan	螻蛄
	Wanrong	螻蛄
	Yinchuan	土狗子
	Lanzhou	土狗子
	Xining	地狗子
	Ürümqi	蝲蝲蛄
	Wuhan	土狗子
	Chengdu	土狗兒, 土狗, 土狗子
	Guiyang	土狗崽, 土狗
	Liuzhou	土狗
	Xuzhou	螻蛄
	Yangzhou	土狗子
	Nanjing	土狗子
	Nantong	土狗兒, 土狗
Cantonese	Guangzhou	土狗
	Hong Kong	土狗
	Dongguan	草狗
Gan	Nanchang	土狗子
	Lichuan	土狗
	Pingxiang	土狗子
Hakka	Meixian	土狗仔
	Xingning	土狗哩
	Huidong (Daling)	土八仔
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	土猴子
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	土狗
	Changting	土猴哩, 土狗
	Wuping	土狗子
	Wuping (Pingyu)	土狗子
	Liancheng	土狗
	Ninghua	土狗子
	Yudu	土狗子
	Ruijin	兔狗子
	Shicheng	土狗子
	Shangyou (Shexi)	土狗子
Jin	Taiyuan	蝲蛄
	Pingyao	蝲蛄
	Xinzhou	蝲蛄
Min Bei	Jian'ou	沙猴仔
Min Dong	Fuzhou	塗犬
	Fuqing	塗犬, 地鹿
Min Nan	Xiamen	杜猴
	Quanzhou	塗猴
	Zhangzhou	杜猴
	Chaozhou	杜猴
	Leizhou	𫋐猴
Wu	Shanghai	螻蛄, 油葫蘆
	Shanghai (Chongming)	螻蛄
	Suzhou	螻蛄
	Danyang	地鱉狗子, 土狗 suburbs
	Hangzhou	地狗兒
	Ningbo	地狗, 游蛄
	Wenzhou	土狗
	Jinhua	土狗, 水狗兒
Xiang	Changsha	土狗子

Compounds

先驅螻蟻／先驱蝼蚁 虎螻蜂／虎蝼蜂 蛖螻／蛖蝼

螻蛄／蝼蛄 (lóugū) 螻蟈／蝼蝈

螻蟻／蝼蚁 (lóuyǐ) 螻蟻得志／蝼蚁得志

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Japanese

Kanji

螻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ろう (rō)
• Kun: けら (kera)

Compounds

• 螻蛄 (おけら, okera and けら, kera)
• 虫螻 (むしけら, mushikera)

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Korean

Hanja

螻 • (ru>nu) (hangeul 루>누, revised ru>nu, McCune–Reischauer ru>nu, Yale lwu>nwu)

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