虬

See also: 虯

虬 U+866C, 虬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-866C ← 虫 [U+866B] CJK Unified Ideographs 虭 → [U+866D]

Translingual

Han character

虬 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+1, 7 strokes, cangjie input 中戈山 (LIU), composition ⿰虫乚)

1. young dragon

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1076, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32805
• Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2833, character 3
• Unihan data for U+866C

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
芁	*kriːw
荍	*ɡiw
叫	*kiːws
訆	*kiːws
嘂	*kiːws
收	*qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws
糾	*kɯw, *krɯwʔ
朻	*kɯw, *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
丩	*kɯw, *krɯw
赳	*krɯw, *krɯwʔ
虬	*ɡrɯw
虯	*ɡrɯw
觓	*ɡrɯw

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 虬 – see 虯 (“young dragon with horns; twisted; etc.”). (This character, 虬, is the simplified form of 虯.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

虬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. young dragon

Readings

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• Go-on: ぐ (gu); ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}; きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kun: みずち (mizuchi)^{←みづち (miduti, historical)←みつち (mituti, ancient)}

Compounds

• 虬竜(きゅうりょう) (kyūryō), 虬竜(きゅうりゅう) (kyūryū)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
虬
みずち Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese みづち, from 水 (mi₁, “water”) +‎ つ (tu, “possessive particle”) +‎ 霊 (ti, “spirit”)

Noun

虬(みずち) • (mizuchi) ^{←みづち (miduti)?}

1. Alternative spelling of 蛟 (mizuchi): a mythical dragon-like beast

Korean

Hanja

虬 • (gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune–Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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