蠕

蠕	U+8815, 蠕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8815

← 蠔
[U+8814]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蠖 →
[U+8816]

Translingual

Han character

蠕 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 中戈一月月 (LIMBB), four-corner 5112₇, composition ⿰虫需)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1100, character 50

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33749

Dae Jaweon: page 1564, character 34

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2900, character 3

Unihan data for U+8815

Chinese

trad.		蠕
simp. ^#		蠕
2nd round simp.		⿰虫入

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (需) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
羺	*noː
獳	*noː
擩	noːs, njoʔ, njos, njul, *njod
譳	*noːs
懦	noːls, njo
糯	*noːls
需	*sno
繻	sno, njo
鑐	*sno
儒	*njo
濡	njo, noːn
襦	*njo
嚅	*njo
顬	*njo
鱬	*njo
嬬	*njo
臑	*njo
醹	njo, njoʔ
蠕	*njo
孺	*njos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njo) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 需 (OC *sno).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): rú (ru²)

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): jû / lû / jî

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: rú
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: rú
  - Wade–Giles: ju²
  - Yale: rú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ru
  - Palladius: жу (žu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyu⁴
  - Yale: yùh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jû
  - Tâi-lô: jû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: juu
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu²³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lû
  - Tâi-lô: lû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: luu
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /lu²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jî
  - Tâi-lô: jî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zi¹³/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*njo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠕
Reading #	1/1
No.	13980
Phonetic component	需
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	儒
Old Chinese	/*njo/
Notes	見史記說文作蝡

Definitions

蠕

squirm; wriggle

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ruǎn (ruan³)

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ruǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ruǎn
  - Wade–Giles: juan³
  - Yale: rwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: roan
  - Palladius: жуань (žuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯än²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyun⁵
  - Yale: yúhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn¹³/

Definitions

蠕

Alternative form of 蝡／蠕 (“squirm; wriggle”)

Compounds

柔蠕
蚑蠕
蚑行蠕動／蚑行蠕动
蜫蠕
蜎蠕
蜎飛蠕動／蜎飞蠕动
蝚蠕 (Róurú)
蠉蠕
蠉飛蠕動／蠉飞蠕动
蠕動／蠕动 (rúdòng)
蠕形動物／蠕形动物 (ruǎnxíng dòngwù)
蠕活
蠕簇
蠕蛇
蠕蜚
蠕蟲／蠕虫 (rúchóng)
蠕蠕
蠕行
跂蠕
選蠕／选蠕

Japanese

Kanji

蠕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: にゅう (nyū); ねん (nen)
Kan-on: じゅ (ju); ぜん (zen)
Kun: うごめく (ugomeku, 蠕く)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

蠕: Hán Nôm readings: nhuyễn

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