虻

虻 U+867B, 虻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-867B ← 虺 [U+867A] CJK Unified Ideographs 虼 → [U+867C]

Translingual

Han character

虻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜女 (LIYV), four-corner 5011₀, composition ⿰虫亡)

1. horsefly, gadfly

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32835
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2835, character 12
• Unihan data for U+867B

Chinese

trad.		虻
simp. #		虻
alternative forms		蝱／虻

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
忙	*maːŋ
芒	*maːŋ, *maŋ
茫	*maːŋ
恾	*maːŋ
吂	*maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒	*maːŋ, *maŋs
朚	*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙	*maːŋ, *maŋ
杗	*maːŋ, *maŋ
荒	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓	*hmaːŋ
衁	*hmaːŋ
巟	*hmaːŋ
詤	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊	*hmaːŋʔ
喪	*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡	*maŋ
望	*maŋ, *maŋs
莣	*maŋ
朢	*maŋ, *maŋs
鋩	*maŋ
硭	*maŋ
忘	*maŋ, *maŋs
网	*mlaŋʔ
罔	*mlaŋʔ
蛧	*maŋʔ
網	*mlaŋʔ
輞	*maŋʔ
棢	*maŋʔ
惘	*maŋʔ
菵	*maŋʔ
誷	*maŋʔ
魍	*maŋʔ
妄	*maŋs
盲	*mraːŋ
蝱	*mraːŋ
虻	*mraːŋ
氓	*mraːŋ
甿	*mraːŋ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b-(r/j)aŋ (“fly, bee”). Cognate with 蠅 (OC *m-rəŋ > *m-ləŋ, “fly”), Tibetan སྦྲང་བུ (sbrang bu, “bee”), Burmese ယင် (yang, “fly”), Chepang याङ् (“insect; fly”), Japhug ɣʑo (“bee”) (STEDT; Coblin, 1986; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter & Sagart, 2014; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méng (meng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mong⁴, mang⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng²
    • Yale: méng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mong⁴, mang⁴
    • Yale: mòhng, màhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mong⁴, mang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mong⁴, meng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔːŋ²¹/, /mɐŋ²¹/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	虻
Reading #	1/1
No.	12691
Phonetic component	亡
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	盲
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋ/
Notes	同蝱見莊子

Definitions

虻

1. horsefly; gadfly

Compounds

• 牛虻 (niúméng)
• 花虻
• 蚊虻之勞／蚊虻之劳
• 食蟲虻／食虫虻

 

References

• “虻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
虻
あぶ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

• 蝱

Kanji

虻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. horsefly

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: もう (mō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: あぶ (abu, 虻)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あ​ぶ [áꜜbù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [a̠bɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

虻(あぶ) or 虻(アブ) • (abu) 

1. a horsefly

Idioms

Idioms

• 虻蜂取(あぶはちと)らず (abu hachi torazu)

References

• Yoshida, Masatoshi et.al. Kodansha's Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary. Tokyo: Kodansha International (JPN), 1993. →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja

虻 • (meong) (hangeul 멍, revised meong, McCune–Reischauer mŏng, Yale meng)

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