裸蟲

Chinese

		naked	animal; insect
trad. (裸蟲)		裸	蟲
simp. (裸虫)		裸	虫
alternative forms		倮蟲 臝蟲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luǒchóng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˇ ㄔㄨㄥˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luǒchóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˇ ㄔㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luǒchóng
    • Wade–Giles: lo³-chʻung²
    • Yale: lwǒ-chúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoochorng
    • Palladius: лочун (ločun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: lwaX drjuwng

Rime
Character	裸	蟲
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	郎果切	直弓切
Baxter	lwaX	drjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luɑX/	/ɖɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/luɑX/	/ɖiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/luɑX/	/ȡiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwaX/	/ɖuwŋ/
Li Rong	/luɑX/	/ȡiuŋ/
Wang Li	/luɑX/	/ȡĭuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/luɑX/	/ȡʱi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luǒ	chóng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lo5	cung4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤo[r]ʔ  C.lruŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·roːlʔ  l'uŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	裸	蟲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luǒ	chóng
Middle Chinese	‹ lwaX ›	‹ drjuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁo[r]ʔ/	/*C.lruŋ/
English	bare, naked	insect
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	裸	蟲
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	4765	1506
Phonetic component	果	蟲
Rime group	歌	終
Rime subdivision	3	0
Corresponding MC rime	裸	蟲
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·roːlʔ/	/*l'uŋ/
Notes		後省作蟲已見漢簡

Noun

裸蟲

1. (Classical) animal that has no scale, shell, fur or feather