蝸
See also: 蜗
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Translingual
    
    Han character
    
蝸 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月月口 (LIBBR), four-corner 57127, composition ⿰虫咼)
References
    
- KangXi: page 1091, character 29
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33338
- Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2862, character 14
- Unihan data for U+8778
Chinese
    
| trad. | 蝸 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 蜗 | |
Glyph origin
    
Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 碢 | *l'oːl | 
| 腡 | *ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl | 
| 過 | *kloːl, *kloːls | 
| 渦 | *kloːl, *qloːl | 
| 鍋 | *kloːl | 
| 楇 | *kloːl, *ɡloːls | 
| 瘑 | *kloːl | 
| 緺 | *koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl | 
| 堝 | *kloːl | 
| 濄 | *kloːl, *qloːl | 
| 鐹 | *kloːlʔ, *kloːls | 
| 薖 | *kʰloːl | 
| 簻 | *kʰloːl, *kr'oːl | 
| 禍 | *ɡloːlʔ | 
| 窩 | *qloːl | 
| 萵 | *qloːl | 
| 檛 | *kr'oːl | 
| 膼 | *kr'oːl | 
| 蝸 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl | 
| 媧 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl | 
| 騧 | *kroːl, *kʷroːl | 
| 冎 | *kroːlʔ | 
| 剮 | *kroːlʔ | 
| 諣 | *qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls | 
| 歄 | *kʷroːl | 
| 咼 | *kʰʷroːl | 
| 喎 | *kʰʷroːl | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).
Etymology
    
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 螺 (OC *roːl, “aquatic snail”).
Perhaps related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *kloʔ (“snail, shellfish”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
    
Compounds
    
See also
    
- 螺 (“aquatic snail”)
Japanese
    
    
Korean
    
    Hanja
    
蝸 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)
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Vietnamese
    
    
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