螞

螞 (radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈尸手火 (LISQF), four-corner 5112₇, composition ⿰虫馬)

• KangXi: page 1093, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33428
• Dae Jaweon: page 1558, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2876, character 4
• Unihan data for U+879E

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 馬 (OC *mraːʔ).

Traditionally thought to be the same word as 馬 (OC *mraːʔ, “horse > big”).

Mei (1985) proposes that it is derived from 蝱 (OC *mraːŋ, “horsefly”), which he relates to Proto-Tai *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”).

螞

1. ^† A prefix used in insect names.

螞

1. Only used in 螞蚱／蚂蚱 (màzha).

螞

1. Only used in 螞螂／蚂螂 (mālang).

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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: め (me)
• Kan-on: ば (ba)
• Kan’yō-on: ま (ma)

螞 • (ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune–Reischauer ma, Yale ma)

1. (말거머리) horse-leech (Haemopis sanguisuga)

• 螞蟥 (마황, mahwang) horse-leech

• 蛭 (질, jil) common leech