蚊
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Translingual
Han character
蚊 (radical 142 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜大 (LIYK), four-corner 50140, composition ⿰虫文)
References
- KangXi: page 1077, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32849
- Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2840, character 8
- Unihan data for U+868A
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 旻 | *mrɯn |
| 旼 | *mrɯn |
| 汶 | *mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns |
| 忞 | *mrɯn |
| 盿 | *mrɯn |
| 枚 | *mɯːl |
| 玫 | *mɯːl |
| 玟 | *mɯːl |
| 文 | *mɯn |
| 紋 | *mɯn |
| 蚊 | *mɯn |
| 雯 | *mɯn |
| 彣 | *mɯn |
| 馼 | *mɯn |
| 鳼 | *mɯn |
| 鼤 | *mɯn, *mɯns |
| 抆 | *mɯnʔ, *mɯns |
| 紊 | *mɯns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯn) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn).
Etymology 1
| simp. and trad. |
蚊 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | ||
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *muujs with a nominal suffix *-n (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Khmer មូស (muuh), Vietnamese muỗi.
Pronunciation
Definitions
蚊
Synonyms
Compounds
Etymology 2
| simp. and trad. |
蚊 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | 文 緡／缗 | |
From 文 (man4, “classifier for copper coins”).
Pronunciation
Definitions
蚊
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Japanese
Kanji
Readings
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 蚊 |
| か Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
From Old Japanese. Possibly related to 噛む (kamu, “to bite”) or 痒い (kayui, “itchy”), although the ultimate derivation remains unknown.
Pronunciation
Noun
- mosquito
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 161)
- 蚊蟻 上可 下音疑 訓安利乃古
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 161)
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 蚊 |
| かあ Grade: S |
| Irregular |
Cognate with 蚊 (ka). Likely pronounced long due to being a single mora. Elongation of single mora words is still seen in the Ōsaka dialect with words like teː "hand" from te. The 794 quotation is the oldest extant example of a long vowel in Japanese.
Pronunciation
- (Irregular reading)
- IPA(key): [ka̠ː]
Noun
- mosquito
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 104)
- 蚊蝄䖟蜺 [...] 上二字加安下二字阿牟
- 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (page 3 (back))
- 蚊 加阿
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 104)
References
- Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), →ISBN.
- Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN.
Korean
Hanja
蚊 • (mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune–Reischauer mun, Yale mun)
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