# 蛀

| 蛀 | U+86C0, &#34496; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86C0 |
| ← 蚿 [U+86BF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蛁 → [U+86C1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蛀 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜土 (LIYG), four-corner 5011$_4$, composition ⿰虫主)
* insects that eat books, clothes

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1080, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32947
* Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 22
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2845, character 2
* Unihan data for U+86C0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 飳 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 妵 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 黈 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 蘣 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 罜 | *doːɡ, *tjos |
| 拄 | *toʔ |
| 柱 | *toʔ, *doʔ |
| 駐 | *tos |
| 註 | *tos, *tjos |
| 鉒 | *tos |
| 軴 | *tos |
| 住 | *tos, *dos |
| 跓 | *doʔ |
| 嵀 | *doʔ |
| 主 | *tjoʔ |
| 麈 | *tjoʔ |
| 宔 | *tjoʔ |
| 炷 | *tjoʔ, *tjos |
| 注 | *tjos |
| 疰 | *tjos |
| 蛀 | *tjos |
| 霔 | *tjos |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjos) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhù (zhu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): chu
    (Meixian, Guangdong): cu$^4$
* Northern Min (KCR): cṳ̿
* Eastern Min (BUC): cé̤ṳ / céu
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): chù / chiù
    (Teochew, Peng'im): zu$^3$
    (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): jiu$^3$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$tsy
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhù
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhù
*** Wade–Giles: chu$^4$
*** Yale: jù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
*** Palladius: чжу (čžu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zyu$^3$
*** Yale: jyu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzy$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ju$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡syː³³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chu
*** Hakka Romanization System: zu
*** Hagfa Pinyim: zu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡su⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: cu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu⁵³/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cṳ̿
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sy³³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: cé̤ṳ / céu
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡søy²¹³/, /t͡siɛu²¹³/
* cé̤ṳ - literary;
* céu - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: tsyuH
Rime :
| Character | 蛀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 之戍切 |
| Baxter | tsyuH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕɨo$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕio$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕio$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cuə̆$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕio$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi̯u$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zyu$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*tjos/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蛀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17627 |
| Phonetic component | 主 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 注 |
| Old Chinese | /*tjos/ |

### Definitions

蛀
* insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, grains etc. (e.g. moth, silverfish, etc.)
* (of insects) to eat through

#### Synonyms

* (moth): 蠹 (dù)
* (silverfish):
* 壁魚／壁鱼 (bìyú)
* 書蛀蟲／书蛀虫 (shūzhùchóng)
* 書蟲／书虫 (shūchóng)
* 白魚／白鱼 (báiyú)
* 紙魚／纸鱼 (zhǐyú)
* 蛀書蟲／蛀书虫
* 蠹 (dù) (literary, or in compounds)
* 蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
* 衣蟲／衣虫 (yīchóng)
* 衣魚／衣鱼 (yīyú)

### Compounds

* 蛀子
* 蛀牙 (zhùyá)
* 蛀蝕／蛀蚀
* 蛀蟲／蛀虫 (zhùchóng)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)
* Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi)

## Korean
### Hanja

蛀 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)
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