蛸

蛸	U+86F8, 蛸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86F8

← 蛷
[U+86F7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蛹 →
[U+86F9]

Translingual

Han character

蛸 (radical 142 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火月 (LIFB), four-corner 5912₇, composition ⿰虫肖)

References

KangXi: page 1083, character 21

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33072

Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 9

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2855, character 3

Unihan data for U+86F8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蛸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蛸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	sreːw, sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	sreːw, slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	sreːw, sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	sreːw, sew
綃	sreːw, sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	sreːw, sew
娋	sreːw, sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	sreːws, sʰews, *sew
揱	sreːwɢs, slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	slew, slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	seːw, sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
  - Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: siu¹
  - Yale: sīu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹
  - IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /siᴇu/▼

Rime
Character	蛸
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相邀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/
Li Rong	/siɛu/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*sew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蛸
Reading #	2/2
No.	13746
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宵
Old Chinese	/*sew/

Definitions

蛸

Only used in 螵蛸 (piāoxiāo, “ootheca of a mantis”).
A surname.

Compounds

海螵蛸

白蛸

螵蛸 (piāoxiāo)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shāo (shao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saau¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄠ
  - Wade–Giles: shao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shau
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: saau¹
  - Yale: sāau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saau¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sao¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sɑːu̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ʃˠau/▼

Rime
Character	蛸
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨw/
Li Rong	/ʃau/
Wang Li	/ʃau/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shāo

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*sreːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蛸
Reading #	1/2
No.	13715
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	梢
Old Chinese	/*sreːw/

Definitions

蛸

Only used in 蠨蛸／蟏蛸 (“long-jawed orb weaver (Tetragnathidae)”).

Compounds

蠨蛸／蟏蛸

蠨蛸滿堂／蟏蛸满堂

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shāo, xiāo (shao¹, xiao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄠ, ㄒㄧㄠ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄠ
  - Wade–Giles: shao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shau
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
  - Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

蛸

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Synonyms: 八爪魚／八爪鱼 (bāzhuǎyú), 章魚／章鱼 (zhāngyú)

Japanese

蛸(tako)

Kanji

蛸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
Kan’on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}; そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
Kun: たこ (tako, 蛸)

Compounds

飯蛸 (いいだこ) (īdako)
螵蛸 (おおじがふぐり) (ōjigafuguri)
貝蛸 (かいだこ) (kaidako)
酢蛸 (すだこ) (sudako)
蛸足 (たこあし) (takoashi)
蛸烏賊 (たこいか) (takoika)
蛸鉤 (たこかぎ) (takokagi)
蛸水母 (たこくらげ) (takokurage)
蛸頭巾 (たこずきん) (takozukin)
蛸突 (たこつ)き (takotsuki)
蛸壷 (たこつぼ) (takotsubo): octopus pot; foxhole
蛸釣 (たこつ)り (takotsuri)
蛸胴突 (たこどうつ)き (takodōtsuki)
蛸入道 (たこにゅうどう) (takonyūdō)
蛸 (たこ)の足 (あし) (tako no ashi)
蛸 (たこ)の木 (き) (tako no ki)
蛸頭巾 (たこずきん) (takozukin)
蛸 (たこ)の糞 (くそ)で頭 (あたま)に上 (あ)がる (tako no kuso de atama ni agaru)
蛸 (たこ)の共食 (ともぐ)い (tako no tomogui)
蛸 (たこ)の枕 (まくら) (tako no makura)
蛸配当 (たこはいとう) (takohaitō)
蛸引 (たこひ)き (takohiki)
蛸船 (たこぶね) (takobune)
蛸部屋 (たこべや) (takobeya)
蛸坊主 (たこぼうず) (takobōzu)
蛸焼 (たこや)き (takoyaki): takoyaki
蛸薬師 (たこやくし) (takoyakushi)
手長蛸 (てながだこ) (tenagadako)
引 (ひ)っ張 (ぱ)り蛸 (だこ) (hipparidako)
船蛸 (ふねだこ) (funedako)
真蛸 (まだこ) (madako)
水蛸 (みずだこ) (mizudako)
薬 (や)鑵 (かん)で茹 (ゆ)でた蛸 (たこ)のよう (yakan de yudeta tako no yō)
茹 (ゆ)で蛸 (だこ) (yudedako)

Kanji in this term
蛸
たこ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) たこ [táꜜkò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]
- IPA^(key): [ta̠ko̞]

Alternative forms

章魚, 鮹, 鱆

Noun

蛸 (hiragana たこ, katakana タコ, rōmaji tako)

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References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蛸 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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[DJR-1] 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN