# 蜘

| 蜘 | U+8718, &#34584; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8718 |
| ← 蜗 [U+8717] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蜙 → [U+8719] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蜘 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人大口 (LIOKR), four-corner 5610$_0$, composition ⿰虫知)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1085, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33134
* Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 24
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2862, character 15
* Unihan data for U+8718

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 彘 | *l'eds |
| 璏 | *l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled |
| 薙 | *l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'iʔ |
| 知 | *ʔl'e |
| 蜘 | *te |
| 智 | *ʔl'es |
| 鼅 | *te |
| 潪 | *teɡs, *deɡ |
| 踟 | *de |
| 雉 | *l'iʔ |
| 矢 | *hliʔ |
| 痴 | *l̥ʰɯ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *te) : semantic 虫 (“insect; insect-like creature”) + phonetic 知 (OC *ʔl'e). Originally 鼅 (OC *te), which was originally 䵹.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhī (zhi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ti
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhī
*** Zhuyin: ㄓ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhih
*** Wade–Giles: chih$^1$
*** Yale: jr̄
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
*** Palladius: чжи (čži)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zi$^1$
*** Yale: jī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzi$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ji$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti
*** Tâi-lô: ti
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dy
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ti³³/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ti⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: trje
Rime :
| Character | 蜘 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 知 (9) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 陟移切 |
| Baxter | trje |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʈiᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʈiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȶjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʈiə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ȶie/ |
| Wang Li | /ȶǐe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ȶie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*tre/
    (Zhengzhang): /*te/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蜘 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ trje › |
| Old Chinese | /*tre/ |
| English | *tre.tro spider |
| 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 | 蜘 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11496 |
| Phonetic component | 矢 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | |
| Old Chinese | /*te/ |
| Notes | 同鼅見太玄，說文作蟲上知於 |

### Definitions

蜘
* Used in 蜘蛛 (zhīzhū, “spider”).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* spider

#### Readings

* Go-on: ち (chi)
* Kan-on: ち (chi)
* Kun: くも (kumo, 蜘)

#### Compounds

* 蜘糸(い) (i, “spiderweb”)
* 蜘蛛(くも) (kumo), 蜘蛛(ちちゅう) (chichū), 蜘蛛(ちちゅ) (chichu), 蜘蛛(ちしゅ) (chishu, “spider”)
* 蜘網(ちもう) (chimō, “spiderweb”)
* 土蜘(つちぐも) (tsuchigumo, “Atypus karschi; tsuchigumo”)

## Korean
### Hanja

蜘 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)
* spider

#### Compounds

* 지주 (蜘蛛, jiju, “spider”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

蜘: Hán Nôm readings: tri
* spider

#### Compounds

* tri chu (蜘蛛, “spider”)