蠋

蠋 U+880B, 蠋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-880B ← 蠊 [U+880A] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠌 → [U+880C]

Translingual

Han character

蠋 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫むし+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 中ちゅう戈ほこ田中たなか戈ほこ (LIWLI), four-corner 5612₇, composition ⿰虫むし蜀しょく)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1100, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33703
• Dae Jaweon: page 1564, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2897, character 6
• Unihan data for U+880B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠋
alternative forms		蜀しょく

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (蜀しょく) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
襡	*toːʔ, *toːɡs, *doːʔ, *doːɡ, *djoɡ
噣	*toːɡs, *tuɡs, *rtoːɡ, *tjoɡ
斣	*toːɡs
歜	*sdoːmʔ, *tʰjoɡ
斀	*rtoːɡ
孎	*rtoːɡ, *toɡ
濁にご	*rdoːɡ
鐲	*rdoːɡ, *zroːɡ, *djoɡ
鸀	*rdoːɡ, *tjoɡ
擉	*sʰroːɡ
獨どく	*doːɡ
髑	*doːɡ
韣	*doːɡ, *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
斸	*toɡ
钃	*toɡ
欘	*toɡ
躅	*doɡ
蠋	*doɡ, *tjoɡ
燭しょく	*tjoɡ
囑しょく	*tjoɡ
矚	*tjoɡ
屬ぞく	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
属ぞく	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
蠾	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
觸さわ	*tʰjoɡ
臅	*tʰjoɡ
觕	*sʰlaː, *zlaːʔ, *tʰjoɡ
蜀しょく	*djoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *doɡ, *tjoɡ) : semantic 虫むし (“worm”) + phonetic 蜀しょく (OC *djoɡ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhú (zhu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhú
    • Wade–Giles: chu²
    • Yale: jú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwu
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyowk, drjowk

Rime
Character	蠋	蠋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	章あきら (23)	澄きよし (11)
Final (韻いん)	燭しょく (8)	燭しょく (8)
Tone (調しらべ)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	之これ欲よく切きり	直じき録ろく切きり
Baxter	tsyowk	drjowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨok̚/	/ɖɨok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiok̚/	/ɖiok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiok̚/	/ȡiok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuawk̚/	/ɖuawk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiok̚/	/ȡiok̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭwok̚/	/ȡĭwok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯wok̚/	/ȡʱi̯wok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhu	zhú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zuk1	zuk6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doɡ/, /*tjoɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠋	蠋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11827	11837
Phonetic component	蜀しょく	蜀しょく
Rime group	屋や	屋や
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		燭しょく
Old Chinese	/*doɡ/	/*tjoɡ/
Notes		蜀しょく再さい轉てん註

Definitions

蠋

1. ^† caterpillar

   • 蜎蜎者もの蠋、烝在ざい桑くわ野の。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yuānyuān zhě zhú, zhēng zài sāng yě. [Pinyin]

     Creeping about are the caterpillars, all over the mulberry fields.

Japanese

Kanji

蠋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょく (shoku); どく (doku); ぞく (zoku)
• Kun: けむし (kemushi)