䗽

䗽 U+45FD, 䗽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-45FD ← 䗼 [U+45FC] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 䗾 → [U+45FE]

Translingual

Han character

䗽 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女土中一戈 (VGLMI), composition ⿱維虫)

1. a small gadfly that suck blood of horse or cow, weevil found in rice
2. etc.

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1100, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2901, character 8
• Unihan data for U+45FD

Chinese

trad.		䗽
simp.		𰳚

Etymology

Austroasiatic (Norman & Mei, 1976; Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruj ~ *ruuj ~ *ruəj ~ *ruhaj (“"fly (insect)"”) and its descendants.

Foreign (pre-)initial *r- was lost before Old Chinese *w-.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wèi (wei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wèi
    • Wade–Giles: wei⁴
    • Yale: wèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ywijH

Rime
Character	䗽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以醉切
Baxter	ywijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷiH/
Shao Rongfen	/juɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwiH/
Li Rong	/uiH/
Wang Li	/jwiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/wiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai6

Definitions

䗽

1. (obsolete) small gadfly

   • 夫邊境者，國之尾也，譬之如牛馬，處暑之既至，䖟䗽之既多，而不能掉其尾，臣亦懼之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     夫边境者，国之尾也，譬之如牛马，处暑之既至，䖟𰳚之既多，而不能掉其尾，臣亦惧之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE

     Fú biānjìng zhě, guó zhī wěi yě, pì zhī rú niúmǎ, chùshǔ zhī jì zhì, mǎngwèi zhī jì duō, ér bùnéng diào qí wěi, chén yì jù zhī. [Pinyin]

     The borders and frontiers are like states' tails. Let's compare them to oxen and horses: when the End of Heat term will have come, the large and small gadflies will have swarmed, and [oxen and horses] will not be able to wag their tails. I your subject fear that.

2. rice weevil