蠅

See also: 蝇 and 蝿
蠅 U+8805, 蠅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8805
← 蠄
[U+8804]
CJK Unified Ideographs 蠆 →
[U+8806]

Translingual

Han character

蠅 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口X山 (LIRXU), four-corner 56116, composition ⿰虫黽)

References

  • KangXi: page 1099, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33690
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2897, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8805

Chinese

trad. 蠅
simp. 蝇

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *b·lɯŋ) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 黽 (OC *mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *mreːŋʔ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b-(r/j)aŋ (“fly; bee”). Compare 虻 (OC mˁraŋ, “"horsefly"”), Tibetan སྦྲང་བུ (sbrang bu, “bee”), Burmese ယင် (yang, “fly”), Chepang याङ्‌ (“insect; fly”), Japhug ɣʑo (“bee”) (STEDT; Coblin, 1986; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • sìng - vernacular;
  • ìng - literary.
Note:
  • sîn - vernacular;
  • êng - literary.

Rime
Character 蠅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 余陵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/jɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jiŋ/
Li
Rong
/iəŋ/
Wang
Li
/jĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yíng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jing4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yíng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ying ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-rəŋ/
English fly (n.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蠅
Reading # 1/1
No. 9171
Phonetic
component
黽
Rime
group
蒸
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
蠅
Old
Chinese
/*b·lɯŋ/

Definitions

蠅

  1. fly; housefly

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

蝿

Kyūjitai

蠅

Kanji

蠅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蝿)

Readings

  • Go-on: よう (yō)
  • Kan-on: よう (yō)
  • Kun: はえ (hae, 蠅)

Noun

Kanji in this term
蠅
はえ > はい
Hyōgaiji
irregular
Kanji in this term
蠅
はえ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

蠅(はえ) • (hae) ←はへ (fafe)?
(alternative reading hiragana はい, rōmaji hai, historical hiragana はひ)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 蝿 (“fly”) (insect of the family Muscidae)

Korean

Hanja

蠅 (eum 승 (seung))

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