蟄

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 執 + semantic 虫 (“bug”)

Han character

蟄 (radical 142 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土戈中一戈 (GILMI), four-corner 4513₆)

1. to hibernate

References

• KangXi: page 1096, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33537
• Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2883, character 1
• Unihan data for U+87C4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蟄 (simplified 蛰, Yale jat6)

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Japanese

Kanji

蟄

Readings

• On: ちつ (chitsu), ちゅう (chū)
• Kun: かくれる (kakureru)

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Korean

Hanja

蟄 (hangeul 칩, revised chip, McCune-Reischauer ch'ip, Yale chip)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蟄 (simplified 蛰, pinyin zhí (zhi2),zhé (zhe2), Wade-Giles chih²)

Last modified on 19 August 2012, at 01:51