虵

虵 U+8675, 虵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8675 ← 虴 [U+8674] CJK Unified Ideographs 虶 → [U+8676]

Translingual

Han character

虵 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心木 (LIPD), composition ⿰虫也)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1076, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32820
• Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2836, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8675

Chinese

simp. and trad.		虵

Glyph origin 1

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

	Old Chinese
他	*l̥ʰaːl
拖	*l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞	*l'aːl
池	*l'aːl, *l'al
灺	*ljalʔ
鍦	*ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵	*ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也	*laːlʔ
忚	*hleːl
髢	*l'eːls
杝	*l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔	*l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳	*l'al
阤	*l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施	*hljal, *hljals
絁	*hljal
葹	*hljal
弛	*hljalʔ
箷	*lal
衪	*lel, *lalʔ
暆	*lel
迆	*lal, *lalʔ
酏	*lal, *lalʔ
匜	*lal, *lalʔ
迤	*lalʔ
扡	*lalʔ
崺	*lalʔ
貤	*lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地	*l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 虵 – see 蛇 (“snake; serpent; illegal immigrant; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 蛇).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yě (ye³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yě
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yě
    • Wade–Giles: yeh³
    • Yale: yě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yee
    • Palladius: е (je)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ²¹⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: yaeX

Rime
Character	虵
Reading #	3/3
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊者切
Baxter	yaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiaX/
Pan Wuyun	/jiaX/
Shao Rongfen	/iaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaX/
Li Rong	/iaX/
Wang Li	/jĭaX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯aX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	je5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*laːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	虵
Reading #	2/3
No.	14774
Phonetic component	也
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	野
Old Chinese	/*laːlʔ/

Definitions

虵

1. Used in 虵蛭.

Glyph origin 2

simp. and trad.		虵

Parallel construction with 他 (“he, him”), 她 (“she, her”), 牠 (“(animal) it”), etc., changing the radical to that of 蛤 (“frog, toad”).

Etymology

From 他 (tā).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tā (ta¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tā
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ta
    • Wade–Giles: tʻa¹
    • Yale: tā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
    • Palladius: та (ta)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taa¹
    • Yale: tā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ta¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaː⁵⁵/

Definitions

虵

1. (neologism, Internet slang) Third-person singular pronoun referring to Jiang Zemin in Moha culture.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03624

Japanese

Kanji

虵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: い (i); じゃ (ja); た (ta)
• Kan-on: い (i); しゃ (sha); た (ta)
• Kan’yō-on: だ (da)
• Kun: へび (hebi, 虵)