螯

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 敖 + semantic 虫 (“insect”) – part of an insect, its pincers.

Han character

螯 (radical 142 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土大中一戈 (GKLMI), 手大中一戈 (QKLMI), X土大中一 (XGKLM), four-corner 4813₆)

1. nippers, pincers, claws (of crustaceans)

References

• KangXi: page 1094, character 53
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33496
• Dae Jaweon: page 1559, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2875, character 7
• Unihan data for U+87AF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

螯 (Yale ngou4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

螯 (POJ ngâu, Guangdong ngau², Hagfa Pinyim ngau2)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

螯

Readings

• On: ごう (gō)
• Kun: はさみ (hasami)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
螯

Hanzi

螯 (pinyin áo (ao2), Wade-Giles ao²)

Noun

螯 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin áo)

1. pincer; nipper; claw

Derived terms

• dàáoxiā 大螯蝦 (trad.), 大螯虾 (trad.)

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Vietnamese

Han character

螯 (ngao)

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