蛙 - Wiktionary

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

蛙 (radical 142 虫+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中戈土土 (LIGG), four-corner 5411₄, composition ⿰虫圭)

frog

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: page 1081, character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32997
Dae Jaweon: page 1549, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2847, character 3
Unihan data for U+86D9

ChineseEdit

		-
simp. and trad.		蛙

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin

(Pinyin): wā, jué (wa¹, jue²)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄚ, ㄐㄩㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waa¹
Min Nan (POJ): koai / oa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: wā
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ
  - Wade-Giles: wa¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ua
  - IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: jué
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
  - Wade-Giles: chüeh²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: waa¹
  - Yale: wā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa¹
  - IPA ^(key): /wɑː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koai / oa
  - Tâi-lô: kuai / ua
  - IPA (Taipei): /kuai⁴⁴/, /ua⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuai³⁴/, /ua³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (蛙, reconstructed)
Character (蛙), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 佳 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 烏媧切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɣuɛ/	/ʔwai/	/ʔuɛ/	/ʔʷɯæ/	/ʔwaɨj/	/wai/	/ʔuæi/
Character (蛙), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 烏瓜切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɣua/	/ʔwa/	/ʔua/	/ʔʷɯa/	/ʔwaɨ/	/wa/	/ʔua/

Old Chinese pronunciation (蛙, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character		Modern Beijing (Pinyin)			Middle Chinese		Old Chinese			English
蛙		wā			‹ ʔwɛ ›		/*qʷˤre/			frog
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	No.		Phonetic component	Rime group		Rime subdivision		Corresponding MC rime	Old Chinese		Notes
蛙	4552		圭	魚		0		窊	/*qʷraː/		見漢書即說文鼃
蛙	4567		圭	支		0		蛙	/*qʷreː/		見漢書即說文鼃

Derived termsEdit

青蛙 (qīng wā) frog

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

Etymology 1Edit

/kaheru/: [kaperu] → [kaɸeru] → [kaweru] → [kaeru]. The loss of the medial -w- is due to the following -e as Japanese ceased to distinguish between /e, we/.