蠛

蠛

蠛 U+881B, 蠛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-881B ← 蠚 [U+881A] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠜 → [U+881C]

Translingual

Han character

蠛 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿田戈 (LITWI), four-corner 5415₃, composition ⿰虫蔑)

1. flies, small insects produced in damp places

References

• KangXi: page 1101, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33779
• Dae Jaweon: page 1565, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2899, character 14
• Unihan data for U+881B

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Chinese

trad.		蠛
simp. #		蠛

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
礣	*mreːd
蔑	*meːd, *meːd
篾	*meːd
蠛	*meːd
懱	*meːd
幭	*meːd
鱴	*meːd
衊	*meːd
瀎	*meːd, *maːd
襪	*mad
韤	*mad
韈	*mad

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miè (mie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mit⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miè
    • Wade–Giles: mieh⁴
    • Yale: myè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
    • Palladius: ме (me)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mit⁶
    • Yale: miht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /met̚/

Rime
Character	蠛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	先 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	莫結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/met̚/
Pan Wuyun	/met̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛt̚/
Li Rong	/met̚/
Wang Li	/miet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/miet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mit6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*meːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠛
Reading #	1/1
No.	9119
Phonetic component	蔑
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔑
Old Chinese	/*meːd/

Definitions

蠛

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Japanese

Kanji

蠛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: めち (mechi)
• Kan-on: べつ (betsu)
• Kun: かつおむし (katsuomushi)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蠛蠓(まくなぎ) (makunagi): a kind of biting midge