蜔

蜔 U+8714, 蜔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8714 ← 蜓 [U+8713] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜕 → [U+8715]

Translingual

Han character

蜔 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心田 (LIPW), composition ⿰虫甸)

1. inlaid shell-work

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1085, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33130
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2857, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8714

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 田
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
田	*l'iːŋ
佃	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畋	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
鈿	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
沺	*l'iːŋ
甸	*l'iːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 甸 (OC *l'iːŋs)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Yale: dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/

Definitions

蜔

1. Only used in 螺蜔.

Japanese

Kanji

蜔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: でん (den)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)