螑

螑 U+8791, 螑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8791 ← 螐 [U+8790] CJK Unified Ideographs 螒 → [U+8792]

Translingual

Han character

螑 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹山大 (LIHUK), four-corner 5613₄, composition ⿰虫臭)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1093, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33390
• Dae Jaweon: page 1558, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2878, character 21
• Unihan data for U+8791

Chinese

trad.		螑
simp. #		螑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiù (qiu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciòu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiu⁴
    • Yale: chyòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiow
    • Palladius: цю (cju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cau³
    • Yale: chau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯³³/

Definitions

螑

1. Only used in 赳螑 (jiùxiù, “appearance of a dragon stretching its neck and moving in a wavelike manner”).

References

• “螑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–