蜴

蜴 U+8734, 蜴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8734 ← 蜳 [U+8733] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜵 → [U+8735]

Translingual

Han character

蜴 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈日心竹 (LIAPH), four-corner 5612₇, composition ⿰虫易)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1087, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33190
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2862, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8734

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
賜	*sleːɡs
儩	*sleɡs
舓	*ɦljeʔ
易	*leːɡs, *leɡ
敡	*leɡs
鬄	*sljeɡ
睗	*hljeɡ
晹	*hljeɡ
痬	*leɡ
蜴	*leɡ
埸	*leɡ
逷	*l̥ʰeːɡ
剔	*l̥ʰeːɡ
踢	*tʰeːɡ
惕	*l̥ʰeːɡ
錫	*sleːɡ
裼	*sleːɡ
緆	*sleːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Yale: yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jik⁶
    • Yale: yihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: yek

Rime
Character	蜴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	清 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊益切
Baxter	yek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiajk̚/
Li Rong	/iɛk̚/
Wang Li	/jĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*leɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ yek ›
Old Chinese	/*lek/
English	lizard
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	蜴
Reading #	1/1
No.	15036
Phonetic component	易
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	繹
Old Chinese	/*leɡ/

Definitions

蜴

1. Used in compounds.

Compounds

• 虺蜴
• 蜥蜴 (xīyì)
• 蟋蜴

 

Japanese

Kanji

蜴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: やく (yaku)
• Kan-on: えき (eki)^{←えき (eki, historical)←𛀁き (yeki, ancient)}
• Kun: とかげ (tokage, 蜴)

Compounds

• 蜥蜴(トカゲ) (tokage, “skink; lizard”)

Korean

Hanja

蜴 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜴: Hán Nôm readings: dịch

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