蛆
 
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Translingual
    
    Han character
    
蛆 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月一 (LIBM), four-corner 57110, composition ⿰虫且)
References
    
- KangXi: page 1080, character 19
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32963
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 35
 - Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2842, character 16
 - Unihan data for U+86C6
 
Chinese
    
| simp. and trad. | 
蛆 | |
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Glyph origin
    
Characters in the same phonetic series (且) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 虘 | *zaːl, *zaː | 
| 蔖 | *zlaːl, *sʰaːʔ | 
| 摣 | *rnaː, *ʔsraː | 
| 袓 | *ʔsjaː, *zaʔ | 
| 怚 | *ʔsjaː, *ʔsas, *zaʔ | 
| 罝 | *ʔsjaː | 
| 謯 | *ʔslja, *ʔsraːʔ | 
| 姐 | *ʔsjaːʔ | 
| 抯 | *ʔsljaːʔ, *ljaːʔ, *ʔsraː | 
| 飷 | *ʔsjaːʔ | 
| 且 | *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa | 
| 趄 | *sʰjaːs, *sʰa | 
| 笡 | *sʰjaːs | 
| 查 | *ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː | 
| 柤 | *ʔsraː | 
| 樝 | *ʔsraː | 
| 皻 | *ʔsraː | 
| 渣 | *ʔsraː | 
| 楂 | *zraː | 
| 苴 | *zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa | 
| 駔 | *ʔslaːŋʔ, *zaːʔ | 
| 租 | *ʔsaː | 
| 蒩 | *ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa | 
| 祖 | *ʔsaːʔ | 
| 組 | *ʔsaːʔ | 
| 珇 | *ʔsaːʔ | 
| 靻 | *ʔsaːʔ | 
| 粗 | *sʰaː, *zaːʔ | 
| 徂 | *zaː | 
| 殂 | *zaː | 
| 麆 | *zaːʔ, *zras | 
| 伹 | *zaːʔ, *sʰa | 
| 蛆 | *ʔsa, *sʰa | 
| 沮 | *ʔsa, *ʔsas, *sʰa, *zaʔ, *ʔsra | 
| 咀 | *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ | 
| 疽 | *sʰa | 
| 雎 | *sʰa | 
| 狙 | *sʰa, *sʰas | 
| 岨 | *sʰa | 
| 砠 | *sʰa | 
| 坥 | *sʰa, *sʰas | 
| 刞 | *sʰas | 
| 覰 | *sʰas | 
| 覷 | *sʰas | 
| 跙 | *zaʔ | 
| 筯 | *das | 
| 菹 | *ʔsra | 
| 葅 | *ʔsra | 
| 阻 | *ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras | 
| 俎 | *ʔsraʔ | 
| 詛 | *ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras | 
| 鉏 | *zra, *zraʔ | 
| 豠 | *zra | 
| 鋤 | *zra | 
| 耡 | *zra, *zras | 
| 齟 | *zraʔ | 
| 助 | *zras | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsa, *sʰa) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa).
Pronunciation
    
Definitions
    
蛆
- maggot
 - (figurative, derogatory) despicable person
 - (Min Nan, Puxian Min) wriggler; wiggler; mosquito larva
 - (Taiwan, neologism, slang, derogatory) supporters of Kuomintang (KMT)
- Synonyms: 蛆蛆, 藍蛆/蓝蛆
 
 
Synonyms
    
	Dialectal synonyms of 孑孓 (“wriggler; wiggler; mosquito larva”) [map]
Antonyms
    
- (KMT supporters): 吱 (zhī, “DPP supporters”)
 
Pronunciation
    
Compounds
    
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References
    
- “蛆”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
 
Japanese
    
    
Korean
    
    Hanja
    
蛆 (eum 저 (jeo))
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