# 蟄

| 蟄 | U+87C4, &#34756; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87C4 |
| ← 蟃 [U+87C3] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蟅 → [U+87C5] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蟄 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土戈中一戈 (GILMI), four-corner 4513$_6$, composition ⿱執虫)

#### Derived characters

* 𤄁

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1096, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33537
* Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 22
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2883, character 1
* Unihan data for U+87C4

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 騺 | *tibs |
| 摯 | *tjibs |
| 贄 | *tjibs |
| 鷙 | *tjibs |
| 墊 | *tiːms, *diːb |
| 慹 | *tjeb, *ndiːb, *sdib, *tjib |
| 謺 | *tjeb |
| 褺 | *diːb |
| 蓻 | *stib |
| 縶 | *tib |
| 漐 | *tʰib |
| 蟄 | *dib |
| 執 | *tjib |
| 瓡 | *tjib |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *dib) : phonetic 執 (OC *tjib) + semantic 虫 (“bug”).

### Etymology

Possibly related to 揖 (jí, “to cluster together”) (Schuessler, 2007).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhé, zhí
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˊ, ㄓˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zik$^6$ / zat$^6$ / zaap$^6$ / zit$^3$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳt
* Eastern Min (BUC): dĭk
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): ti̍t / tia̍k / ta̍t / ti̍p
    (Teochew, Peng'im): dêg$^8$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhé
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhé
*** Wade–Giles: chê$^2$
*** Yale: jé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jer
*** Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhí
*** Zhuyin: ㄓˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhíh
*** Wade–Giles: chih$^2$
*** Yale: jŕ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyr
*** Palladius: чжи (čži)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zik$^6$ / zat$^6$ / zaap$^6$ / zit$^3$
*** Yale: jihk / jaht / jaahp / jit
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzik$^9$ / dzat$^9$ / dzaap$^9$ / dzit$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: jig$^6$ / zed$^6$ / zab$^6$ / jid$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɪk̚²/, /t͡sɐt̚²/, /t͡saːp̚²/, /t͡siːt̚³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳt
*** Hakka Romanization System: ciid$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: cid$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨt̚²/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: dĭk
*** Sinological IPA : /tiʔ⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti̍t
*** Tâi-lô: ti̍t
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dit
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tit̚⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tit̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tit̚²⁴/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k
*** Tâi-lô: tia̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: diak
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ta̍t
*** Tâi-lô: ta̍t
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dat
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tat̚¹²¹/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti̍p
*** Tâi-lô: ti̍p
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dip
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tip̚⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tip̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tip̚²⁴/
* ti̍t/tia̍k/ta̍t - vernacular;
* ti̍p - literary.
* Middle Chinese: drip
Rime :
| Character | 蟄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 緝 (142) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 直立切 |
| Baxter | drip |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɖˠiɪp̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɖᵚip̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȡiep̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɖjip̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ȡjəp̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ȡĭĕp̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ȡʱi̯əp̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zap$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]rip/
    (Zhengzhang): /*dib/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蟄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhé |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ drip › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]rip/ |
| English | hibernate; cluster |
| 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 | 蟄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17289 |
| Phonetic component | 執 |
| Rime group | 緝 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蟄 |
| Old Chinese | /*dib/ |

### Definitions

蟄
* to hibernate
* to live in seclusion

### Compounds

* 冬蟄／冬蛰
* 出蟄／出蛰
* 啟蟄／启蛰
* 蟄伏／蛰伏 (zhéfú)
* 蟄居／蛰居 (zhéjū)
* 蟄獸／蛰兽
* 蟄蟄／蛰蛰
* 蟄蟲／蛰虫
* 蟄陷／蛰陷
* 蟄雷／蛰雷
* 閉蟄／闭蛰
* 驚蟄／惊蛰 (Jīngzhé)

### References

* “蟄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: じゅう (jū)
* Kan-on: ちゅう (chū)
* Kan’yō-on: ちつ (chitsu)
* Kun: ちっする (chissuru, 蟄する)、かくれる (kakureru, 蟄れる)

## Korean
### Hanja

蟄 • (chip) (hangeul 칩, revised chip, McCune–Reischauer ch'ip, Yale chip)
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