蛸

蛸 U+86F8, 蛸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86F8
← 蛷
[U+86F7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蛹 →
[U+86F9]

Translingual

Han character

蛸 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火月 (LIFB), four-corner 59127, composition ⿰虫肖)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1083, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33072
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2855, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+86F8

Chinese
trad. 蛸
simp. # 蛸

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 蛸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梢 *sreːw
捎 *sreːw, *sew
筲 *sreːw
鞘 *sreːw, *slewɢs
艄 *sreːw
蛸 *sreːw, *sew
髾 *sreːw
輎 *sreːw
旓 *sreːw
弰 *sreːw
鮹 *sreːw, *sew
綃 *sreːw, *sew
颵 *sreːw
莦 *sreːw, *sew
娋 *sreːw, *sreːws
稍 *sreːws
哨 *sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱 *sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲 *sreːws
睄 *sreːws
悄 *sʰewʔ
俏 *sʰews
峭 *sʰews
陗 *sʰews
帩 *sʰews
誚 *zews
消 *sew
宵 *sew
霄 *sew
硝 *sew
銷 *sew
逍 *sew
魈 *sew
痟 *slew
焇 *sew
肖 *slew, *slews
韒 *slewɢs
趙 *l'ewʔ
箾 *seːw, *sleːw
踃 *seːw
削 *slewɢ
矟 *sreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sreːw, *sew) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 蛸
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相邀切
Baxter sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /siaw/
Li
Rong		 /siɛu/
Wang
Li		 /sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 siu1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蛸
Reading # 2/2
No. 13746
Phonetic
component		 肖
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 宵
Old
Chinese		 /*sew/

Definitions

蛸

  1. Used in 螵蛸 (piāoxiāo, “ootheca of a mantis”).
  2. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 蛸
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 所交切
Baxter sraew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃˠau/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂaɨw/
Li
Rong		 /ʃau/
Wang
Li		 /ʃau/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 saau1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蛸
Reading # 1/2
No. 13715
Phonetic
component		 肖
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 梢
Old
Chinese		 /*sreːw/

Definitions

蛸

  1. Only used in 蠨蛸／蟏蛸 (xiāoshāo, “long-jawed spider (Tetragnathidae)”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

蛸

  1. octopus; cuttlefish
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 章魚 (“octopus”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 章舉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 章魚, 蛸
Mandarin Taiwan 章魚
Harbin 八大魚
Yantai (Muping) 蛸, 八帶蛸
Jinan 八帶蛸
Singapore 八爪魚
Cantonese Guangzhou 章魚, 八爪魚
Hong Kong 章魚, 八爪魚
Dongguan 章魚, 八爪魚
Nanning 八爪魚
Hakka Meixian 章魚, 八帶魚
Eastern Min Fuzhou 章魚
Southern Min Xiamen 章魚
Dongshan 猴水
Tainan 章魚, 咃鰸
Penang (Hokkien) 豬母酸
Singapore (Hokkien) 墨斗魚
Puxian Min Putian 章魚
Wu Wenzhou 章魚

Japanese
蛸(tako)

Kanji
蛸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. octopus

Readings

Compounds
Compounds
  • 飯蛸(いいだこ) (īdako)
  • 螵蛸(おおじがふぐり) (ōjigafuguri)
  • 貝蛸(かいだこ) (kaidako)
  • 酢蛸(すだこ) (sudako)
  • 蛸足(たこあし) (takoashi)
  • 蛸烏賊(たこいか) (takoika)
  • 蛸鉤(たこかぎ) (takokagi)
  • 蛸水母(たこくらげ) (takokurage)
  • 蛸頭巾(たこずきん) (takozukin)
  • 蛸突(たこつ)き (takotsuki)
  • 蛸壷(たこつぼ) (takotsubo): octopus pot; foxhole
  • 蛸釣(たこつ)り (takotsuri)
  • 蛸胴突(たこどうつ)き (takodōtsuki)
  • 蛸入道(たこにゅうどう) (takonyūdō)
  • 蛸(たこ)の足(あし) (tako no ashi)
  • 蛸(たこ)の木(き) (tako no ki)
  • 蛸(たこ)の糞(くそ)で頭(あたま)に上(あ)がる (tako no kuso de atama ni agaru)
  • 蛸(たこ)の共食(ともぐ)い (tako no tomogui)
  • 蛸(たこ)の枕(まくら) (tako no makura)
  • 蛸配当(たこはいとう) (takohaitō)
  • 蛸引(たこひ)き (takohiki)
  • 蛸船(たこぶね) (takobune)
  • 蛸部屋(たこべや) (takobeya)
  • 蛸坊主(たこぼうず) (takobōzu)
  • 蛸焼(たこや)き (takoyaki): takoyaki
  • 蛸薬師(たこやくし) (takoyakushi)
  • 手長蛸(てながだこ) (tenagadako)
  • 引(ひ)っ張(ぱ)り蛸(だこ) (hipparidako)
  • 船蛸(ふねだこ) (funedako)
  • 真蛸(まだこ) (madako)
  • 水蛸(みずだこ) (mizudako)
  • 薬鑵(やかん)で茹(ゆ)でた蛸(たこ)のよう (yakan de yudeta tako no yō)
  • 茹(ゆ)で蛸(だこ) (yudedako)


Kanji in this term
蛸
たこ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
章魚
鮹
鱆

Pronunciation

Noun

蛸(たこ) or 蛸(タコ) • (tako) 

  1. octopus

Descendants
  • → Hokkien: 咃鰸 (thak-kho͘h)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蛸 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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