蟎

See also: 螨
蟎 U+87CE, 蟎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87CE
← 蟍
[U+87CD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蟏 →
[U+87CF]

Translingual

Han character

蟎 (radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿中月 (LITLB), composition ⿰虫㒼)

References
  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1096, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33570
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2883, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+87CE

Chinese
trad. 蟎
simp. 螨

Pronunciation

Definitions

蟎

  1. mite
    虎蠕形蟎 / 虎蠕形螨  ―  hǔrúxíngmǎn  ―  Demodex tigris

Compounds
  • 乾酪蟎／干酪螨
  • 塵蟎／尘螨 (chénmǎn)
  • 恙蟎／恙螨
  • 擬葉蟎／拟叶螨
  • 毛囊蟎／毛囊螨
  • 疥蟎／疥螨
  • 粉蟎／粉螨
  • 葉蟎／叶螨
  • 蟎蟲／螨虫 (mǎnchóng)
  • 銹蟎／銹螨

References

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).[1]

Kanji
蟎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings
  • Kun: だに (dani, 蟎)

Noun

蟎 (hiragana だに, rōmaji dani)

  1. Alternative spelling of 壁蝨: a tick, a mite (parasite)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ダニ. More commonly spelled 壁蝨 in kanji. See those entries for more detail.

This character is very rare in Japanese.

References
  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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