蛍

See also: 螢 and 萤
蛍 U+86CD, 蛍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86CD
← 蛌
[U+86CC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蛎 →
[U+86CE]

Translingual

Traditional 螢
Shinjitai 蛍
Simplified 萤

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai character. Simplified from 螢 (炏 → ⺍).

Han character

蛍 (radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月中一戈 (FBLMI), composition ⿳⺍冖虫)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1081, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32983
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 4, page 2845, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+86CD

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 蛍 – see 螢 (“firefly”).
(This character, 蛍, is a variant form of 螢.)

Japanese

Shinjitai

 蛍

Kyūjitai

 螢

Kanji

蛍

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 螢)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蛍
ほたる
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshú, compiled some time after 759 CE.[1] Ultimate derivation unknown.

  • The initial ho element is almost certainly the ancient form of 火 (hi, “fire”), which appears as ho in compounds such as 炎 (honō, “flame”, originally from ho no ho) or 火屋 (hoya, “lamp chimney”).
  • Various theories exist regarding the taru portion. This may be from classical verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down, to droop”, in reference to a firefly's posterior; modern form 垂れる (tareru)), or a vowel shift from verb 照る (teru, “to shine”).

Pronunciation

Noun

蛍 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 螢, hiragana ほたる, katakana ホタル, rōmaji hotaru)

  1. a firefly
    火 (ほ)垂 (た)るの墓 (はか)
    Hotaru no Haka
    Grave of the Fireflies
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蛍
けい
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 螢 (MC ɦweŋ, “firefly”).

Affix

蛍 (hiragana けい, rōmaji kei)

  1. used in various compounds to refer to fluorescence

Proper noun

蛍 (hiragana けい, rōmaji Kei)

  1. A male or female given name

References

  1. ↑ c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 13, poem 3344), text here
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蛍 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune–Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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