蝸

See also: 蜗
蝸 U+8778, 蝸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8778
← 蝷
[U+8777]
CJK Unified Ideographs 蝹 →
[U+8779]

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 Dictionary: 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, 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



Rime
Character 蝸 蝸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 佳 (32) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 古娃切 古華切
Baxter kwea kwae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠuɛ/ /kˠua/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷᵚæ/ /kʷᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuæi/ /kua/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwaɨj/ /kwaɨ/
Li
Rong
/kuɛ/ /kua/
Wang
Li
/kwai/ /kwa/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kwai/ /kwa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guā guā
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gwaai1 gwaa1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wō
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwæ ›
Old
Chinese
/*k.rˁoj/ (dialect: *k.rˁ- > *kˁr-)
English snail

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 蝸 蝸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4384 4394
Phonetic
component
冎 冎
Rime
group
歌 歌
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
瓜
Old
Chinese
/*kroːl/ /*kʷroːl/

Definitions

蝸

  1. terrestrial snail

Compounds

  • 人工蝸牛/人工蜗牛
  • 無殼蝸牛/无壳蜗牛 (wúké-wōniú)
  • 耳蝸/耳蜗 (ěrwō)
  • 蝸利蠅名/蜗利蝇名
  • 蝸名蠅利/蜗名蝇利
  • 蝸居/蜗居 (wōjū)
  • 蝸居蟻垤/蜗居蚁垤
  • 蝸廬/蜗庐
  • 蝸步難移/蜗步难移
  • 蝸步龜移/蜗步龟移 (wōbùguīyí)
  • 蝸牛/蜗牛 (wōniú)
  • 蝸窄/蜗窄
  • 蝸篆/蜗篆
  • 蝸舍/蜗舍
  • 蝸螺/蜗螺
  • 蝸行/蜗行
  • 蝸角/蜗角
  • 蝸角之爭/蜗角之争 (wōjiǎozhīzhēng)
  • 蝸角虛名/蜗角虚名
  • 蝸角蠅頭/蜗角蝇头
  • 蝸輪/蜗轮
  • 蝸髫/蜗髫
  • 蠅利蝸名/蝇利蜗名
  • 蠅名蝸利/蝇名蜗利
  • 蠅頭蝸角/蝇头蜗角

See also

  • 螺 (“aquatic snail”)

Japanese

Kanji

蝸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. snail

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

蝸 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

蝸: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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