蝤蛑

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (蝤蛑)		蝤	蛑
simp. #(蝤蛑)		蝤	蛑
alternative forms		蝤蝥 蝤䗋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóumóu, jiūmóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ ㄇㄡˊ, ㄐㄧㄡ ㄇㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁴ mau⁴ / zau¹ mau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yóumóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ ㄇㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yóumóu
    • Wade–Giles: yu²-mou²
    • Yale: yóu-móu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: youmou
    • Palladius: юмоу (jumou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵ moʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan, literary variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiūmóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ ㄇㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jioumóu
    • Wade–Giles: chiu¹-mou²
    • Yale: jyōu-móu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jioumou
    • Palladius: цзюмоу (czjumou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ moʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁴ mau⁴ / zau¹ mau⁴
    • Yale: yàuh màuh / jāu màuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴ mau⁴ / dzau¹ mau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴ meo⁴ / zeo¹ meo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹ mɐu̯²¹/, /t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵ mɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsjuw mjuw

Rime
Character	蝤	蛑
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	即由切	莫浮切
Baxter	tsjuw	mjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨu/	/mɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siu/	/miu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siəu/	/miəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡suw/	/muw/
Li Rong	/t͡siu/	/miu/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭəu/	/mĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ə̯u/	/mi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiū	móu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau1	mau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sklu  mu/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiú
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]u/
English	蝤蠐 tree-grub
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	蝤	蛑
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	15552	9270
Phonetic component	酉	牟
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	遒	謀
Old Chinese	/*sklu/	/*mu/
Notes		又說文作蟊古文

Noun

蝤蛑

1. (archaic or formal) swimming crab

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 梭子蟹 (“swimming crab”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		蝤蛑, 蠘
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		梭子蟹, 蝤蛑
Taxonomic name		梭子蟹, 蝤蛑
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	梭子蟹
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nantong	梭子蟹, 尖子蟹
Northern Min	Jian'ou	蠘
	Songxi	蠘
	Zhenghe	蠘
	Jianyang	蠘
	Wuyishan	蠘
	Pucheng (Shibei)	蠘
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蠘
	Fuzhou (Changle)	蠘
	Fuqing	蠘
	Yongtai	蠘
	Gutian	蠘
	Fu'an	蠘
	Ningde	蠘
	Shouning	蠘
	Zhouning	蠘
	Fuding	蠘
Southern Min	Xiamen	蠘仔, 蠘
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	蠘
	Quanzhou	蠘仔, 蠘
	Zhangzhou	蠘仔, 蠘
	Taipei	蠘仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	蠘仔
	Kaohsiung	蠘仔
	Yilan	蠘仔
	Tainan	蠘仔
	Kinmen	蠘仔
	Penghu (Magong)	蠘
	Penang (Hokkien)	蠘
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蠘
	Shantou	蠘
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	蠘
	Wenchang	蠘
	Haikou	蠘
Puxian Min	Putian	蠘
	Xianyou	蠘
Wu	Shanghai	梭子蟹, 白蟹
	Suzhou	梭子蟹
	Hangzhou	槍蟹, 海蟹
	Ningbo	白蟹
	Wenzhou	港蟹