蜘蛛くも

Chinese

			spider
simp. and trad. (蜘蛛くも)		蜘	蛛
alternative forms		鼅鼄／𱌄𬹣 obsolete 䵹鼄／䵹𬹣

蜘蛛くも

Etymology

Reduplication in Old Chinese (Baxter and Sagart, 1998).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): zhīzhū

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ ㄓㄨ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): zi¹ zu¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹ zyu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tî-tû
• Eastern Min (BUC): tĭ-tṳ̆
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ti-tu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): di¹ du¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsy-tsy
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zhr⁶ jy¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhīzhū → zhīzhu (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ ㄓㄨ → ㄓ ˙ㄓㄨ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhihjhů
    • Wade–Giles: chih¹-chu⁵
    • Yale: jr̄-ju
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy.ju
    • Palladius: чжичжу (čžičžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/ → /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ ɖ͡ʐ̥u²/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: zi¹ zu¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: zzu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵ t͡su⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹ zyu¹
    • Yale: jī jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹ dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹ ju¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵ t͡syː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tî-tû
    • Hakka Romanization System: di^ˊ du^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: di¹ du¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ti²⁴⁻¹¹ tu²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: tĭ-tṳ̆
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵ ^(tʰ-)ly⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti-tu
    • Tâi-lô: ti-tu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: di'dw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ti⁴⁴⁻²² tu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ti³³ tu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti⁴⁴⁻²² tu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti⁴⁴⁻³³ tu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ti⁴⁴⁻³³ tu⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: di¹ du¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ti tu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti³³⁻²³ tu³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsy-tsy
    • MiniDict: tsy^平ひらた tsy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsr-tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zhr⁶ jy¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴ t͡ɕy³³/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /t͡sz̩²⁴ t͡ɕy³³/

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• Middle Chinese: trje trju

Rime
Character	蜘	蛛
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	知ち (9)	知ち (9)
Final (韻いん)	支ささえ (11)	虞おそれ (24)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Closed
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	陟のぼる移うつり切きり	陟のぼる輸切きり
Baxter	trje	trju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈiᴇ/	/ʈɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈiɛ/	/ʈio/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶjɛ/	/ȶio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈiə̆/	/ʈuə̆/
Li Rong	/ȶie/	/ȶio/
Wang Li	/ȶǐe/	/ȶĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶie̯/	/ȶi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhī	zhū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1	zyu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tre  tro/

  (Zhengzhang): /*te  to/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蜘	蛛
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhī	zhū
Middle Chinese	‹ trje ›	‹ trju ›
Old Chinese	/*tre/	/*tro/
English	*tre.tro spider	*tre-tro spider
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜘	蛛
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11496	17564
Phonetic component	矢や	朱しゅ
Rime group	支ささえ	侯ほう
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		株かぶ
Old Chinese	/*te/	/*to/
Notes	同どう鼅見み太ふとし玄げん，說せつ文ぶん作さく蟲むし上うえ知ち於	說せつ文ぶん同どう鼄

Noun

蜘蛛くも

1. spider

   • 聖人せいじん師し蜂はち，立だて君臣くんしん；師し蜘蛛くも，立だて網あみ罟；師し拱鼠，制せい禮れい；師し戰せん蟻あり，置おけ兵へい。眾人師し賢人けんじん，賢人けんじん師し聖人せいじん，聖人せいじん師し萬物ばんぶつ。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     圣人师蜂はち，立だて君臣くんしん；师蜘蛛くも，立だて网罟；师拱鼠，制せい礼れい；师战蚁，置おけ兵へい。众人师贤人，贤人师圣人，圣人师万物ばんぶつ。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 《關せき尹いん子こ/关尹子こ》, 300s BCE

     Shèngrén shī fēng, lì jūnchén; shī zhīzhū, lì wǎnggǔ; shī gǒngshǔ, zhì lǐ; shī zhàn yǐ, zhì bīng. Zhòngrén shī xiánrén, xiánrén shī shèngrén, shèngrén shī wànwù. [Pinyin]

     The sages learned from the bees to have monarchs and subjects, and they learned from the spiders to have nets of justice. They learned from the ground squirrels to establish politeness, and they learned from the warring ants to deploy armies. The masses learn from the worthies, the worthies learn from the sages, and the sages learn from the myriad things.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蜘蛛くも (“spider”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		蜘蛛くも, 鼄蝥 QJ, 蠾蝓 ZW, 蝳蜍 NY, 社やしろ公こう Q
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蜘蛛くも
Taxonomic name		蜘蛛くも
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	蛛蛛, 蜘蛛くも
	Taiwan	蜘蛛くも
	Ulanhot	蛛蛛
	Tongliao	蛛蛛
	Chifeng	蛛蛛
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	蛛蛛
	Harbin	蜘蛛くも兒じ, 蛛蛛兒じ, 癩かったい癩かったい蛛
	Shenyang	癩かったい癩かったい蛛
	Malaysia	蜘蛛くも
	Singapore	蜘蛛くも
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	阿おもね郎ろう蛛子, 阿おもね郎ろう蛛, 蜘蛛くも
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	老ろう老ろう蛛, 癩かったい癩かったい蛛
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	蛛蛛
	Wanrong	蛛蛛
	Zhengzhou	蛛蛛
	Xi'an	蛛蛛
	Xining	蛛蛛
	Xuzhou	羅ら蛛子, 羅ら羅ら蛛子
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	蛛蛛
	Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan)	蛛蛛
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	蟢里蛛蛛
	Bayanhot	蛛蛛
	Lanzhou	蛛蛛
	Ürümqi	蛛蛛
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	蜘蛛くも, 蜇蛛
	Wuhan	蜘蛛くも
	Guiyang	蝃蛛
	Kunming	蜘蛛くも
	Guilin	蜘蛛くも
	Guanyang	波なみ絲いと
	Liuzhou	蜘蛛くも
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	蜘蛛くも
	Yangzhou	蜘蛛くも
	Nantong	蟢蟢, 蟢蟢兒じ
	Hefei	蜘蛛くも
Mandarin	Fuzhou (Qinjiang, Changle)	賴よりゆき蜘蜘
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蜘蛛くも, 蠄蟧
	Hong Kong	蠄蟧, 蜘蛛くも
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	蠄蟧
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	蠄蟧
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	蝲䗁
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	蝲䗁
	Macau	蠄蟧
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	蜘蛛くも, 蠄蟧
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	蠄蟧
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	蠄蟧
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	蠄蟧
	Foshan	蜘蛛くも, 蠄蟧
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	蜘蛛くも, 蠄蟧
	Foshan (Shunde)	蠄蟧
	Foshan (Sanshui)	蠄蟧, 蜘蛛くも
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	蠄蟧
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	蠄蟧
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	蠄蟧
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	蠄蟧
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	蠄蟧
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	蠄蟧
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	蠄蟧
	Taishan	蠄蟧
	Kaiping (Chikan)	蠄蟧
	Enping (Niujiang)	蠄蟧
	Heshan (Yayao)	蠄蟧
	Dongguan	蠄蟧
	Shenzhen (Dapeng)	蠄蟧
	Shaoguan	蠄蟧
	Yunfu	蠄蟧
	Yangjiang	蠄蟧
	Xinyi	蠄蟧
	Lianjiang	蠄蟧
	Nanning	蜘蛛くも, 蠄蟧
	Wuzhou	蜘蛛くも, 蠄蟧
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	蜘蛛くも
Gan	Nanchang	蝃蛛, 蝃蛛子こ
	Lichuan	庖繅
	Pingxiang	織お蛛
Hakka	Meixian	蝲䗁
	Xingning	蝲䗁
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	蠄蟧
	Huidong (Daling)	蝲䗁
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	蝲䗁
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	蝲䗁
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	蝲䗁
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	蝲䗁
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	蠄蟧
	Wengyuan	蝲䗁
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	蝲䗁
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	蝲䗁
	Liannan	蝲䗁
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	蝲䗁
	Jiexi	蝲䗁
	Luhe	蝲䗁
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	蝲䗁
	Changting	蝲䗁
	Wuping	蝲䗁
	Wuping (Yanqian)	蝲䗁
	Wuping (Pingyu)	蝲䗁
	Liancheng	奇き肖あやか
	Ninghua	奇き肖あやか子こ
	Yudu	斜はす佬
	Ruijin	斜はす佬
	Shicheng	奇き肖あやか
	Shangyou (Shexi)	蝲䗁
	Tonggu (Sandu)	蝲䗁
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	蝲䗁
	Dayu	蝲䗁
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	蝲䗁, 蜘蛛くも
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蝲䗁, 蜘蛛くも
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	蝲䗁, 蜘蛛くも
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	蜘蛛くも, 蝲䗁
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	蝲䗁, 蜘蛛くも
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	蜘蛛くも, 蝲䗁
	Hong Kong	蝲䗁
	Yangxi (Tangkou)	蠄蟧
	Yangchun (Sanjia)	蜘蛛くも
	Xinyi (Sihe)	蠄蟧
	Xinyi (Qianpai)	蠄蟧
	Gaozhou (Xindong)	蝲䗁
	Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai)	蝲䗁
	Huazhou (Xin'an)	蝲䗁
	Lianjiang (Shijiao)	蝲䗁
	Lianjiang (Qingping)	蝲䗁
	Mengshan (Xihe)	甘あま羅ら
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	蝲䗁
	Sabah (Longchuan)	蝲䗁
	Senai (Huiyang)	蝲䗁
	Singkawang	蜘蛛くも, 蝲䗁
Huizhou	Jixi	蛛蛛
	Shexian	蛛蛛
	Huangshan (Tunxi)	蛛蛛, 蜘蛛くも
Jin	Taiyuan	蛛蛛
	Pingyao	蛛蛛
	Xinzhou	羅ら螞蛛蛛, 蟢蛛蛛
	Taibus (Baochang)	狼おおかみ螞蛛蛛
	Linhe	羅ら螞蛛蛛
	Jining	蜘蛛くも
	Hohhot	羅ら螞蛛蛛
	Baotou	蜘蛛くも
	Dongsheng	蜘蛛くも
	Haibowan	蜘蛛くも
Northern Min	Jian'ou	吊つるし蛛
	Zhenghe (Zhenqian)	天てん蛛
	Wuyishan	蜘蛛くも仔こ
	Pucheng (Shibei)	糴蛛仔こ
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蜘蛛くも
	Fuzhou (Changle)	馬うま兜かぶと爺じい
	Fuqing	蜘蛛くも
	Gutian	蟢囝
	Ningde	蟢囝
	Fuding	飛ひ絲いと
Southern Min	Xiamen	蜘蛛くも
	Quanzhou	蜘蛛くも
	Zhangzhou	蜘蛛くも
	Zhao'an	蜘蛛くも
	Taipei	蜘蛛くも
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	蜘蛛くも
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	蜘蛛くも
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	蜘蛛くも
	Kaohsiung	蜘蛛くも
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	蜘蛛くも
	Kaohsiung (Hongmaogang, Siaogang)	蜘蛛くも
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	蜘蛛くも
	Kaohsiung (Tianliao)	蜘蛛くも
	Yilan	蜘蛛くも
	Yilan (Luodong)	蜘蛛くも
	Yilan (Toucheng)	蜘蛛くも
	Changhua (Lukang)	蜘蛛くも
	Taichung	蜘蛛くも
	Taichung (Wuqi)	蜘蛛くも
	Tainan	蜘蛛くも
	Tainan (Anping)	蜘蛛くも
	Taitung	蜘蛛くも
	Taitung (Green Island)	蜘蛛くも
	Hsinchu	蜘蛛くも
	Pingtung (Liuqiu)	蜘蛛くも
	Kinmen	蜘蛛くも
	Penghu (Magong)	經けい蛛, 蜘蛛くも
	Penghu (Pengnan)	經けい蛛
	Penghu (Xiyu)	經けい蛛
	Penghu (Huxi)	經けい蛛, 蜘蛛くも
	Penghu (Wangan)	經けい蛛
	Penghu (Cimei)	經けい蛛
	Penghu (Huayu)	經けい蛛
	Penghu (Zhongtun)	蜘蛛くも
	Penghu (Houliao)	蜘蛛くも
	Penghu (Tongliang)	蜘蛛くも
	Penghu (Jibei)	蜘蛛くも
	Penang (Hokkien)	蜘蛛くも
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蜘蛛くも
	Manila (Hokkien)	蜘蛛くも
	Longyan	蝲䗁
	Chaozhou	蜘蛛くも
	Shantou	蜘蛛くも
	Jieyang	蜘蛛くも
	Haifeng	蜘蛛くも
	Bangkok (Teochew)	蜘蛛くも
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	蜘蛛くも
	Singapore (Teochew)	胡えびす蠅はえ虎とら
	Pontianak (Teochew)	蜘蛛くも
	Leizhou	𧑃蚜
	Wenchang	紅べに蜈
	Haikou	龍りゅう牙きば古いにしえ
Puxian Min	Putian	八はち臘爺
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	蜘蛛くも
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	八はち臘爺
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	八はち臘爺
	Xianyou	蜘蛛くも, 八はち臘爺
	Xianyou (Fengting)	蜘蛛くも
	Xianyou (Youyang)	蜘蛛くも
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	蠄蟧, 蜘蛛くも
	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	蝲䗁
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	爪つま揸, 蛛蛛
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	飛ひ絲いと
Waxiang	Guzhang (Gaofeng)	蛛蛛子こ
	Yuanling (Shaojiwan)	蛛蛛, 蛛蛛子こ
	Luxi (Baisha)	蛛
Wu	Shanghai	蜘蛛くも, 結ゆい蛛
	Shanghai (Chongming)	結ゆい蛛
	Suzhou	結ゆい蛛, 蜘蛛くも
	Wuxi	蜘蛛くも
	Danyang	蜘蛛くも
	Hangzhou	結ゆい蛛, 蜘蛛くも
	Ningbo	蛛蛛, 結ゆい蛛
	Wenzhou	絲いと網もう蜘蛛くも
	Jinhua	蟢, 八はち腳蟢, 蜘蛛くも
Xiang	Changsha	蜘蛛くも子こ, 蜘蛛くも
	Loudi	蜘蛛くも子こ, 蜘蛛くも
	Quanzhou	剝絲
Xiangnan Tuhua	Jiangyong	八はち腳每
	Dong'an	包つつみ絲いと
Yuebei Tuhua	Shaoguan (Dacun, Baitu, Qujiang)	蝲䗁
	Shaoguan (Xiangyang, Xihe, Wujiang)	蝲䗁
	Shaoguan (Shibei, Xinshao, Zhenjiang)	蝲䗁
	Renhua (Zhoutian)	蝲䗁
	Renhua (Shitang)	蝲䗁
	Renhua (Songwei, Guitou)	蝲䗁
	Lechang (Changlai)	蝲䗁
	Lechang (Beixiang)	蝲䗁
	Lechang (Huangpu)	蝲䗁
	Lechang (Guitang, Pingshi)	蠄蟧
	Lechang (Sanxi)	香こう絲いと老ろう網もう
Note	QJ - between ancient Qin and Jin ZW - in the vicinity of ancient Zhao and Wei NY - between Northern Yan, Korea and Lieshui Q - ancient Qi

Derived terms

• 棚たな蜘蛛くも
• 水みず蜘蛛くも (shuǐzhīzhū)
• 海うみ蜘蛛くも (hǎizhīzhū)
• 草くさ蜘蛛くも
• 蜘蛛くも恐懼きょうく症しょう／蜘蛛くも恐おそれ惧症 (zhīzhū kǒngjùzhèng, “arachnophobia”)
• 蜘蛛くも抱だき蛋
• 蜘蛛くも網もう／蜘蛛くも网 (zhīzhūwǎng)
• 蜘蛛くも綱つな／蜘蛛くも纲
• 蜘蛛くも蒙こうむ子こ
• 蜘蛛くも蟹かに (zhīzhūxiè)
• 蜘蛛くも鞔
• 蜘蛛くも章あきら (“The Spider, the twenty-ninth sura of the Qur'an”)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (蜘蛛くも):

• → Japanese: 蜘(ち)蛛(ちゅう) (chichū); 蜘(ち)蛛(しゅ) (chishu); 蜘(ち)蛛(ちゅ) (chichu)
• → Korean: 지주(蜘蛛くも) (jiju)
• → Vietnamese: tri thù (蜘蛛くも)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
くも
Hyōgai	Hyōgai
jukujikun

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed in 759 CE.

Ultimate derivation unknown. Various theories exist, including:

• from 籠こもる (komoru, “to hide inside something”), from the way that spiders hide in their webs
• from 組くむ (kumu, “to bundle something together”), from the way that spiders wrap up caught insects
• from 雲くも (kumo, “cloud”), from the way that spider webs may look vaguely like clouds
• from reconstructed Proto-Japonic *konpo, *konbo (“spider”); possibly cognate with Kagoshima こっ koʔ (< kobu) "spider"; Tanegashima こぶ kobu "large spider"; Amami (Setouchi) こぶ kobu; Okinawan くーばー kuuba; Yonaguni くぶ kubu "spider", etc. If true, then 蜘蛛くも (kumo, “spider”) would be unrelated to 雲くも (kumo, “cloud”), whose proto-form was likely *kumo, as suggested by Okinawan くむ kumu, Yonaguni んむ nmu, Kunigami and Yoron ふむ fumu.

May ultimately be cognate with Korean 거미 (geomi, “spider”). The kanji are an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 蜘蛛くも (zhīzhū).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) くも [kúꜜmò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟mo̞]

Noun

蜘蛛くも(くも) or 蜘蛛くも(クモ) • (kumo) 

1. spider
   • c. 918, Honzō Wamyō:

     蜘蛛くも 楊玄操みさお、知ち誅二音おん　一いち名めい䖦𬠴_{仁じん諝、拙つたな牟二音おん} 一いち名めい絡からま新婦しんぷ_{赤あか班はん者しゃ}　一いち名めい蠨蛸_{仁じん諝、上うえ音おん蕭しょう、所ところ交反、下した本條ほんじょう}　𧋌_{音おと秋あき} 一いち名めい蝳蜍_{毒どく途と二に音おと} 一いち名めい社しゃ公おおやけ 一いち名めい張ちょう公こう網もう　一いち名めい蝃蝥_{拙つたな牟二音おん、已上いじょう五ご名めい、出で兼けん名苑めいえん}　一いち名めい長ちょう蝥_{身み小しょう足長あしなが、出で古今ここん注ちゅう}　和名わみょう久ひさ毛げ

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   • 芥川あくたがわ龍之介りゅうのすけ, 蜘蛛くもの糸いと

     御お(お)釈しゃく(しゃ)迦(か)様よう(さま)は地ち(じ)獄ごく(ごく)の容よう(よう)子こ(す)を御お(ご)覧らん(らん)になりながら、この犍(かん)陀(だ)多おお(た)には蜘蛛くも(クモ)を助すけ(たす)けた事こと(こと)があるのを御お(お)思おもえ(おも)い出で(だ)しになりました。

     O-shaka-sama wa jigoku no yōsu o goran ni narinagara, kono Kandata ni wa kumo o tasuketa koto ga aru no o o-omoidashi ni narimashita.

     While observing the state of Hell, Shakyamuni recalled that this Kandata had once spared a spider.

   • 1999 March 27, “蜘蛛くも(クモ)男おとこ(おとこ) [Werespider]”, in Vol.2, Konami:

     巨きょ(きょ)大だい(だい)クモが知ち(ち)恵めぐみ(え)をつけた姿すがた(すがた)。糸いと(いと)を吐(は)き動どう(うご)きを封ふう(ふう)じ込こみ(こ)める。

     Kyodai kumo ga chie o tsuketa sugata. Ito o haki ugoki o fūjikomeru.

     This giant spider appears to be quite intelligent. It will lock your every movement with its threads.

   • 1999 July 22, “ハンター・スパイダー [Hunter Spider]”, in Vol.4, Konami:

     クモの巣す(す)の罠わな(わな)を仕つかまつ(し)掛かけ(か)け狩かり(か)りをする。罠わな(わな)にかかったものは食しょく(た)べてしまう。

     Kumo no su no wana o shikakekari o suru. Wana ni kakatta mono wa tabete shimau.

     It hunts by laying its spiderweb traps, and it eats whatever gets tangled in them.

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as クモ.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 朝あさ蜘蛛くも(あさぐも) (asagumo)
• 足高蜘蛛あしだかぐも(あしだかぐも) (ashidakagumo): huntsman spider
• 足長あしなが蜘蛛くも(あしながぐも) (ashinagagumo): Tetragnatha praedonia
• 穴あな蜘蛛くも(あなぐも) (anagumo)
• 蟻あり蜘蛛くも(ありぐも) (arigumo)
• 海うみ蜘蛛くも(うみぐも) (umigumo): sea spider
• 鬼蜘蛛おにぐも(おにぐも) (onigumo): Araneus ventricosus
• 川かわ蜘蛛くも(かわぐも) (kawagumo)
• 草くさ蜘蛛くも(くさぐも) (kusagumo)
• 蜘蛛くも形がた類るい(くもがたるい) (kumogatarui)
• 蜘蛛くも蟹かに(くもがに) (kumogani): spider crab
• 蜘蛛くも切きり丸まる(くもきりまる) (kumokirimaru)
• 蜘蛛猿くもざる(くもざる) (kumozaru): spider monkey
• 蜘蛛手くもで(くもで) (kumode)
• 蜘蛛くも(くも)の囲かこえ(い) (kumo no i): spiderweb
• 蜘蛛くも(くも)の糸いと(いと) (kumo no ito)
• 蜘蛛くも(くも)の行くだり(おこな)い (kumo no okonai)
• 蜘蛛くも(くも)の子こ(こ) (kumo no ko): baby spider
• 蜘蛛くも(くも)の巣す(す) (kumo no su): spiderweb
• 蜘蛛くも海星かいせい(くもひとで) (kumohitode): brittlestar
• 蜘蛛くも舞まい(くもまい) (kumomai)
• 蜘蛛膜くもまく(くもまく) (kumomaku): the arachnoid
• 蜘蛛くも目め(くももく) (kumomoku)
• 黄金おうごん蜘蛛くも(こがねぐも) (koganegumo): Argiope amoena
• 後家ごけ蜘蛛くも(ごけぐも) (gokegumo): widow spider
• 小町こまち蜘蛛くも(こまちぐも) (komachigumo)
• 子守こもり蜘蛛くも(こもりぐも) (komorigumo): wolf spider
• 下した(さ)がり蜘蛛くも(ぐも) (sagarigumo)
• 笹ささ蜘蛛くも(ささぐも) (sasagumo): Oxyopes sertatus
• 三番叟さんばそう蜘蛛くも(さんばそうぐも) (sanbasōgumo)
• 地蜘蛛じぐも(じぐも) (jigumo): Atypus karschi
• 女郎蜘蛛じょろうぐも(じょろうぐも) (jorōgumo): joro spider
• 真正しんしょう蜘蛛くも目め(しんせいくももく) (shinseikumomoku)
• 棚たな蜘蛛くも(たなぐも) (tanagumo)
• 土蜘蛛つちぐも(つちぐも) (tsuchigumo) Atypus karschi; tsuchigumo
• 毒どく蜘蛛くも(どくぐも) (dokugumo): poisonous spider; (obsolete) wolf spider
• 戸と閉蜘蛛くも(とたてぐも) (totategumo)
• 鳥とり食しょく蜘蛛くも(とりくいぐも) (torikuigumo): tarantula
• 鳥とり捕と蜘蛛くも(とりとりぐも) (toritorigumo): tarantula
• 蝿はえ取と蜘蛛くも(はえとりぐも) (haetorigumo): jumping spider
• 花はな蜘蛛くも(はなぐも) (hanagumo)
• 平蜘蛛ひらぐも(ひらぐも) (hiragumo): Uroctea compactilis
• 平蜘蛛ひらぐも(ひらたぐも) (hiratagumo), 扁蜘蛛ひらたぐも(ひらたぐも) (hiratagumo): Uroctea compactilis
• 袋ふくろ蜘蛛くも(ふくろぐも) (fukurogumo): sac spider; Atypus karschi
• 水みず蜘蛛くも(みずぐも) (mizugumo): water spider
• 盲めくら蜘蛛くも(めくらぐも) (mekuragumo): harvestman
• 幽霊ゆうれい蜘蛛くも(ゆうれいぐも) (yūreigumo): daddy longlegs spider

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
Hyōgai	Hyōgai

Noun

蜘蛛くも(こっ) • (ko') 

1. (dialect, Kagoshima) spider

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
Hyōgai	Hyōgai

Noun

蜘蛛くも(こぶ) • (kobu) 

1. (dialect, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Saga) spider
2. (dialect, Tanegashima) large spider

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
ち Hyōgai	ちゅう Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 蜘蛛くも (ʈiᴇ ʈɨo). Compare modern Hakka reading tî-tû, Eastern Min tĭ-tṳ̆, Min Nan ti-tu. Probably borrowed at a different time or from a different dialect than chichu below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕit͡ɕɨː]

Noun

蜘(ち)蛛(ちゅう) • (chichū) 

1. spider

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 蜘蛛くも(ちちゅう)の網あみ(あみ) (chichū no ami): spiderweb

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
ち Hyōgai	ちゅ Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 蜘蛛くも (ʈiᴇ ʈɨo). Compare modern Hakka reading tî-tû, Eastern Min tĭ-tṳ̆, Min Nan ti-tu. Probably borrowed at a different time or from a different dialect than chichū above.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ちちゅ [chìchú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕit͡ɕɨ]

Noun

蜘(ち)蛛(ちゅ) • (chichu) 

1. spider

Etymology 6

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
ち Hyōgai	しゅ Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 蜘蛛くも (ʈiᴇ ʈɨo). This reading is the kan'yōyomi, and is thus a later phonetic shift after borrowing, read as 知ち朱しゅ.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ちしゅ [chíꜜshù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiɕɨ]

Noun

蜘(ち)蛛(しゅ) • (chishu) 

1. spider

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 蜘蛛膜くもまく(ちしゅまく) (chishumaku): the arachnoid

References

• Fukane no Sukehito (c. 901–923) Maruyama Yumiko, Wu Qian, editors, Honzō Wamyō: Eiin, Honkoku to Kenkyū) (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin, published 2021, →ISBN.
• “こっ【蜘蛛くも】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
• “こぶ【蜘蛛くも】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
• “こぶ【蜘蛛くも】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

Korean

Hanja in this term
蜘	蛛

Noun

蜘蛛くも • (jiju) (hangeul 지주)

1. hanja form^? of 지주 (“spider”)

Okinawan

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
Hyōgai	Hyōgai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuːbaː]

Noun

蜘蛛くも(くーばー) (kūbā) 

1. spider

References

• “くーばー【蜘蛛くも】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

Southern Amami Ōshima

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
Hyōgai	Hyōgai

Noun

蜘蛛くも(こぶ) (kobu) 

1. spider

References

• “こぶ【蜘蛛くも】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
蜘	蛛

Noun

蜘蛛くも

1. chữ Hán form of tri thù (“arachnid”).

Yonaguni

Kanji in this term
蜘	蛛
Hyōgai	Hyōgai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kubu/

Noun

蜘蛛くも(くぶ) (kubu) 

1. spider

References

• “くぶ【蜘蛛くも】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.