蜉

蜉	U+8709, 蜉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8709

← 蜈
[U+8708]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蜊 →
[U+870A]

Translingual

Han character

蜉 (radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月弓木 (LIBND), four-corner 5214₇, composition ⿰虫孚)

References

KangXi: page 1084, character 22

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33104

Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 7

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2857, character 3

Unihan data for U+8709

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (孚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
殍	brɯwʔ, browʔ, *pʰuw
脬	*pʰruː
捊	bruː, buw
莩	browʔ, pʰuw
哹	pu, bu
浮	*bu
蜉	*bu
桴	bu, pʰuw
罦	bu, pʰuw
琈	*bu
粰	*bu
烰	*bu
艀	*bu
俘	*pʰuw
孚	*pʰuw
孵	*pʰuw
稃	*pʰuw
郛	*pʰuw
筟	*pʰuw

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fú (fu²)

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fau⁴
Min Nan (POJ): hû

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fú
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
  - Wade–Giles: fu²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
  - IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fau⁴
  - Yale: fàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: feo⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
  - Tâi-lô: hû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huu
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /hu²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/

Definitions

蜉

Only used in 蜉蝣 (fúyóu) and 蚍蜉 (pífú).
^‡ big ant

Japanese

Kanji

蜉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

mayfly
large ant

Readings

Go-on: ぶ (bu)
Kan-on: ふう (fū)
Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)

Compounds

Compounds

蜉蝣 (かげろう) (kagerō), 蜉 (ふ)蝣 (ゆう) (fuyū): mayfly
蚍 (ひ)蜉 (ふ) (hifu): large ant

Korean

Hanja

蜉 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

mayfly
kind of large insect

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