蜘

See also: 鼅

蜘	U+8718, 蜘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8718

← 蜗
[U+8717]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蜙 →
[U+8719]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

蜘 (radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人大口 (LIOKR), four-corner 5610₀, composition ⿰虫知)

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: page 1085, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33134
Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2862, character 15
Unihan data for U+8718

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		蜘
alternative forms		鼅 ancient 䵹𧐉

Glyph originEdit

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

	Old Chinese
彘	*l'eds
璏	l'eds, ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
薙	l̥ʰiːs, ljiʔ, *l'iʔ
知	*ʔl'e
蜘	*te
智	*ʔl'es
鼅	*te
潪	teɡs, deɡ
踟	*de
雉	*l'iʔ
矢	*hliʔ
痴	*l̥ʰɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *te): semantic 虫 (“insect; insect-like creature”) + phonetic 知 (OC *ʔl'e). Originally 鼅 (OC *te), which was originally 䵹.

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄓ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
Min Nan (POJ): ti

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhī
  - Zhuyin: ㄓ
  - Wade–Giles: chih¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhih
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi¹
  - Yale: jī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti
  - Tâi-lô: ti
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dy
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ti³³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ti⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /ʈiᴇ/

Rime
Character	蜘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	陟移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈiə̆/
Li Rong	/ȶie/
Wang Li	/ȶǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zh-
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tre/

(Zhengzhang): /*te/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhī
Middle Chinese	‹ trje ›
Old Chinese	/*tre/
English	*tre.tro spider
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	蜘
Reading #	1/1
No.	11496
Phonetic component	矢
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*te/
Notes	同鼅見太玄，說文作蟲上知於