鼈

See also: 龞, 鱉, and 鳖

鼈	U+9F08, 鼈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F08

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

鼈 (radical 205, 黽+12, 25 strokes, cangjie input 火大口X山 (FKRXU), composition ⿱敝黽)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 黽.

For pronunciation and definitions of 鼈 *– see 鱉 (“a kind of freshwater turtle Trionyx sinensis* ⇒ Pelodiscus sinensis”).** (This character, 鼈, is a variant form of 鱉.)

鼈

月 (つき)と鼈 (すっぽん) (tsuki to suppon, “like chalk and cheese”, literally, "the moon and a turtle shell (are both round, but are otherwise completely different)")

鼈

Unknown, theories include:

/supon/ → /suɸon/ → /sɨppõn/
From スホン (suhon), the sound when it jumps into a river; or,
/ɕɨbon/ → /sɨppõn/
Corruption of 朱盆 (shubon, literally “vermillion tray”), a resemblance to its shell.

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

鼈 (hiragana すっぽん, katakana スッポン, rōmaji suppon)

鼈 • (byeol) (hangeul 별, McCune–Reischauer pyŏl, Yale pyel)

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