蟬
See also: 蝉
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Translingual
| Traditional | 蟬 |
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| Shinjitai (extended) |
蝉 |
| Simplified | 蝉 |
Han character
蟬 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口口十 (LIRRJ), four-corner 56156, composition ⿰虫單)
References
- KangXi: page 1097, character 31
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33616
- Dae Jaweon: page 1562, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2891, character 7
- Unihan data for U+87EC
Chinese
| trad. | 蟬 | |
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| simp. | 蝉 | |
| alternative forms | 蟺 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 蟬 | |
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| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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| 嚲 | *taːlʔ |
| 癉 | *taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn |
| 奲 | *taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ |
| 驒 | *daːl, *daːn, *teːn |
| 鼉 | *daːl |
| 磾 | *teːl |
| 鷤 | *deːl, *deːls, *daːn |
| 觶 | *tjal, *tjals |
| 單 | *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans |
| 鄲 | *taːn |
| 殫 | *taːn |
| 簞 | *taːn |
| 匰 | *taːn |
| 襌 | *taːn |
| 彈 | *daːn, *daːns |
| 貚 | *daːn, *deːn |
| 撣 | *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ |
| 潬 | *daːnʔ |
| 僤 | *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan |
| 憚 | *daːns |
| 樿 | *tjanʔ |
| 燀 | *tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ |
| 戰 | *tjans |
| 闡 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 繟 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 幝 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 嘽 | *tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ |
| 灛 | *tʰjanʔ |
| 蟬 | *djan |
| 禪 | *djan, *djans |
| 嬋 | *djan |
| 墠 | *djanʔ |
| 鱓 | *djanʔ |
| 蕇 | *teːnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djan) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans).
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Definitions
蟬
- cicada (Classifier: 隻／只 m c)
- (literary) a type of silk as thin as a cicada's wing
- (literary) cicada-shaped decoration
- (literary) continuously; unendingly
Synonyms
- (cicada):
Dialectal synonyms of 蟬 (“cicada”) [map]
Compounds
Derived terms from 蟬
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Japanese
| 蝉 | |
| 蟬 |
Vietnamese
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