蠃

蠃

蠃 U+8803, 蠃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8803 ← 蠂 [U+8802] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠄 → [U+8804]

Translingual

Han character

蠃 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓中一戈 (YNLMI), four-corner 0021₇, composition ⿱吂⿲月虫凡)

Derived characters

• 𫨁, 𫂯

References

• KangXi: page 1099, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33685
• Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2122, character 17
• Unihan data for U+8803

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Chinese

trad.		蠃
simp. #		蠃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
驘	*roːl
鸁	*roːl
蠃	*roːl, *roːlʔ
臝	*roːlʔ
羸	*rol

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luǒ (luo³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lo², lo⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luǒ
    • Wade–Giles: lo³
    • Yale: lwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoo
    • Palladius: ло (lo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lwɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lo², lo⁵
    • Yale: ló, lóh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lo², lo⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lo², lo⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔː³⁵/, /lɔː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /luɑ^X/

Rime
Character	蠃
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	郎果切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/luɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/luɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwaX/
Li Rong	/luɑX/
Wang Li	/luɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/luɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lo5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*rˤorʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蠃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ lwaX ›
Old Chinese	/*rˁorʔ/ (*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	蠃
Reading #	2/2
No.	8692
Phonetic component	蠃
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	裸
Old Chinese	/*roːlʔ/

Definitions

蠃

1. Only used in 蜾蠃 (guǒluǒ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luó (luo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lo⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luó
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luó
    • Wade–Giles: lo²
    • Yale: lwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luo
    • Palladius: ло (lo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lo⁴
    • Yale: lòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lo⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /luɑ/

Rime
Character	蠃
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落戈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/luɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/luɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwa/
Li Rong	/luɑ/
Wang Li	/luɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/luɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lo4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠃
Reading #	1/2
No.	8690
Phonetic component	蠃
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	𩼊
Old Chinese	/*roːl/
Notes	說文又義後作螺

Definitions

蠃

1. ^† Alternative form of 螺 (luó).

   • 只聽得西門上吹蠃殼聲 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     只听得西门上吹蠃壳声 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 14^th century CE

     zhǐ tīng dé xīmén shàng chuī luó ké shēng [Pinyin]

     The only thing that could be heard was the sound of someone blowing a conch shell from the top of the city's western gate.

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Japanese

Kanji

蠃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ら (ra), か (ka)
• Kun: かたつむり (katatsumuri)

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Korean

Hanja

蠃 • (ra>na) (hangeul 라>나, McCune–Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蠃: Hán Nôm readings: lòa/loà, lỏa/loả

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References

• Nom Foundation