虺

See also: 蝰

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

虺 (radical 142 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一山中一戈 (MULMI), four-corner 1521₃)

1. lizard
2. venomous snake

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 1077, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32833
• Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2834, character 15
• Unihan data for U+867A

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		虺

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huī, huǐ (hui¹, hui³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟ, ㄏㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai², fui¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huī
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: hui¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huei
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hui³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hoei
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai², fui¹
    • Yale: wái, fūi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai², fui¹
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯³⁵/, /fuːi̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /hˠuɛi/, /huʌi/, /hʉi^X/▼

Rime
Character	虺	虺	虺
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	皆 (34)	灰 (42)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	I	III
Fanqie	呼懷切	呼恢切	許偉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠuɛi/	/huʌi/	/hʉiX/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷᵚæi/	/huoi/	/hʷɨiX/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɐi/	/xuɒi/	/xiuəiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwəɨj/	/hwəj/	/hujX/
Li Rong	/xuɛi/	/xuᴀi/	/xiuəiX/
Wang Li	/xwɐi/	/xuɒi/	/xĭwəiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/xwăi/	/xuɑ̆i/	/xwe̯iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hāi	hēi	hěi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[r̥]ˤu[j]/, /*[r̥]u[j]ʔ/, /*r̥u[j]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hŋuːl/, /*hŋruːl/, /*hŋlulʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	虺	虺	虺
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huī	huǐ	huǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ xwoj ›	‹ xjwɨjX ›	‹ xjwɨjX ›
Old Chinese	/*[r̥]ˤu[j]/ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-)	/*[r̥]u[j]ʔ/ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-)	/*r̥u[j]ʔ/ (W dialect: *r̥- > MC x-)
English	exhausted, weary	snake-brood	sound of thunder
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	虺	虺	虺
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	13189	13192	13193
Phonetic component	兀	兀	兀
Rime group	微	微	微
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	灰	虺	虺
Old Chinese	/*hŋuːl/	/*hŋruːl/	/*hŋlulʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

虺

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ReferencesEdit

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

虺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. large poisonous snake

ReadingsEdit

• On: き (ki), かい (kai), け (ke)
• Kun: まむし (mamushi)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

虺 • ‎(hwe) (hangeul 훼, revised hwe, McCune-Reischauer hwe, Yale hwey)

1. viper
2. big snake

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

虺 (hủy, huỷ)

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