蟮

蟮	U+87EE, 蟮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87EE

← 蟭
[U+87ED]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蟯 →
[U+87EF]

Translingual

Han character

蟮 (radical 142, 虫+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿廿口 (LITTR), composition ⿰虫善)

References

KangXi: page 1098, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33624
Dae Jaweon: page 1562, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2893, character 16
Unihan data for U+87EE

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (善) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
橏	*tjenʔ
嫸	*tjenʔ
善	*ɡjenʔ
譱	*ɡjenʔ
蟮	*djanʔ
鱔	*djanʔ
僐	djenʔ, djens
鄯	djenʔ, djens
墡	*djenʔ
磰	*djenʔ
繕	*ɡjens
膳	*djens
饍	*djens

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djanʔ) : semantic 虫 (“insect; worm”) + phonetic 善 (OC *ɡjenʔ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		蟮
variant forms		蟺

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàn (shan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢˋ
  - Wade–Giles: shan⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shann
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sin⁶
  - Yale: sihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /siːn²²/

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*djanʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蟮
Reading #	1/1
No.	11086
Phonetic component	善
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	善
Old Chinese	/*djanʔ/
Notes	同蟺說文作蟺

Definitions

蟮

Only used in 曲蟮 (qūshàn, “earthworm”).

Compounds

土中曲蟮

曲蟮 (qūshàn)

蛐蟮

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蟮 – see 鱔 (“eel”). (This character, 蟮, is a variant form of 鱔.)

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