蜘

See also: 鼅

蜘 U+8718, 蜘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8718 ← 蜗 [U+8717] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜙 → [U+8719]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜘
variant forms		鼅 ancient 䵹

Glyph origin

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.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ti

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• 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/

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• 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-

• 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

Definitions

蜘

1. Used in 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū, “spider”).

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Japanese

Kanji

蜘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. spider

Readings

• Go-on: ち (chi)
• Kan-on: ち (chi)
• Kun: くも (kumo, 蜘)

Compounds

• 蜘糸 (い) (i, “spiderweb”)
• 蜘 (く)蛛 (も) (kumo), 蜘蛛 (ちちゅう) (chichū), 蜘蛛 (ちちゅ) (chichu), 蜘蛛 (ちしゅ) (chishu, “spider”)
• 蜘網 (ちもう) (chimō, “spiderweb”)
• 土蜘 (つちぐも) (tsuchigumo, “Atypus karschi; tsuchigumo”)

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Korean

Hanja

蜘 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

1. spider

Compounds

• 지주 (蜘蛛, jiju, “spider”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜘 (tri)

1. spider

Compounds

• tri chu (蜘蛛, “spider”)