蛍

Japanese shinjitai character. Simplified from 螢 (炏 → ⺍).

蛍 (radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月中一戈 (FBLMI), composition ⿳⺍冖虫)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1081, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32983
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 4, page 2845, character 4
• Unihan data for U+86CD

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 螢)

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←ぎやう (gyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)^{←けい (kei, historical)←くゑい (kwei, ancient)}
• Kun: ほたる (hotaru, 蛍, Jōyō)

• 蛍 (けい)光 (こう) (keikō, “fluorescence”)
• 蛍 (けい)光 (こう)灯 (とう) (keikōtō, “fluorescent lamp”)
• 蛍 (けい)光 (こう)染 (せん)料 (りょう) (keikō senryō, “fluorescent dye”)

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshú, compiled some time after 759 CE.[1] Ultimate derivation unknown.

• The initial ho element is almost certainly the ancient form of 火 (hi, “fire”), which appears as ho in compounds such as 炎 (honō, “flame”, originally from ho no ho) or 火屋 (hoya, “lamp chimney”).
• Various theories exist regarding the taru portion. This may be from classical verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down, to droop”, in reference to a firefly's posterior; modern form 垂れる (tareru)), or a vowel shift from verb 照る (teru, “to shine”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ほ​たる [hóꜜtàrù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ho̞ta̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

蛍 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 螢, hiragana ほたる, katakana ホタル, rōmaji hotaru)

1. a firefly

   火 (ほ)垂 (た)るの墓 (はか)

   Hotaru no Haka

   Grave of the Fireflies

   • 1991 July 15, Adachi, Mitsuru, “魔ま法ほうの粉こなの巻まき [Magical Powder]”, in 虹色とうがらしＮＩＪＩ－ＩＲＯ　ＴＯＨＧＡＲＡＳＨＩ [Rainbow-Colored Chilis], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 30:

     しってるか、ホタルってのは虫 (むし)だぞ。

     Shitteru ka, hotaru tte no wa mushi da zo.

     Did you not know fireflies were insects too?

• 蛍 (ほたる)石 (いし) (hotaruishi, “fluorite”)

From Middle Chinese 螢 (MC ɦweŋ, “firefly”).

蛍 (hiragana けい, rōmaji kei)

1. used in various compounds to refer to fluorescence

蛍 (hiragana けい, rōmaji Kei)

1. A male or female given name

蛍 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune–Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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