# 蜼

| 蜼 | U+873C, &#34620; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-873C |
| ← 蜻 [U+873B] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蜽 → [U+873D] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蜼 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈人土 (LIOG), four-corner 5011$_4$, composition ⿰虫隹)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1088, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33205
* Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 25
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2863, character 8
* Unihan data for U+873C

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 蜼
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 蜼 | *lus, *rulʔ, *luls |
| 堆 | *tuːl |
| 嵟 | *tuːl |
| 碓 | *tuːls |
| 推 | *tʰuːl, *tʰjul |
| 蓷 | *tʰuːl, *tʰjul |
| 陮 | *duːlʔ |
| 魋 | *duːl |
| 嶊 | *stuːlʔ |
| 崔 | *zluːl, *sʰluːl |
| 猚 | *ŋreːl, *rulʔ |
| 椎 | *dul |
| 顀 | *dul |
| 隹 | *tjul |
| 錐 | *tjul |
| 萑 | *kljul |
| 騅 | *tjul |
| 鵻 | *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul |
| 誰 | *djul |
| 脽 | *djul |

#### Etymology 1

    Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lus, *rulʔ, *luls) : semantic 虫 (“insect; crawling creature”) + phonetic 隹 (OC *tjul).

#### Etymology 2

    Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : phonetic 虫 (OC *hŋlulʔ) + semantic 隹 (“bird”).

### Etymology 1

Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *srjuul (“gibbon”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Matisoff (1995) suggests that it is 猶 (OC *lu, “a kind of monkey”) + palatal diminutive suffix.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wèi, lěi, yòu (wei$^4$, lei$^3$, you$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ, ㄌㄟˇ, ㄧㄡˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wai$^6$ / wai$^2$ / leoi$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wèi
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wèi
*** Wade–Giles: wei$^4$
*** Yale: wèi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
*** Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /weɪ̯⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lěi
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lěi
*** Wade–Giles: lei$^3$
*** Yale: lěi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leei
*** Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /leɪ̯²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yòu
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yòu
*** Wade–Giles: yu$^4$
*** Yale: yòu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yow
*** Palladius: ю (ju)
*** Sinological IPA : /joʊ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wai$^6$ / wai$^2$ / leoi$^5$
*** Yale: waih / wái / léuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wai$^6$ / wai$^2$ / loey$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wei$^6$ / wei$^2$ / lêu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐi̯²²/, /wɐi̯³⁵/, /lɵy̯¹³/
* Middle Chinese: ywijH, lwijX, yuwH
Rime :
| Character | 蜼 | 蜼 | 蜼 |
| Reading # | 2/3 | 1/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) | 來 (37) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) | 脂 (16) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III | III |
| Fanqie | 以醉切 | 力軌切 | 余救切 |
| Baxter | ywijH | lwijX | yuwH |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiuɪ$^H$/ | /liuɪ$^X$/ | /jɨu$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jʷi$^H$/ | /lʷi$^X$/ | /jiu$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /juɪ$^H$/ | /ljuɪ$^X$/ | /iəu$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jwi$^H$/ | /lwi$^X$/ | /juw$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ui$^H$/ | /lui$^X$/ | /iu$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /jwi$^H$/ | /lwi$^X$/ | /jĭəu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /wi$^H$/ | /lwi$^X$/ | /i̯ə̯u$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wèi | lěi | yòu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wai$^6$ | leoi$^5$ | jau$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*luls/, /*rulʔ/, /*lus/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蜼 | 蜼 | 蜼 |
| Reading # | 3/3 | 2/3 | 1/3 |
| No. | 17727 | 17714 | 17704 |
| Phonetic component | 隹 | 隹 | 隹 |
| Rime group | 微 | 微 | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遺 | 壘 | 狖 |
| Old Chinese | /*luls/ | /*rulʔ/ | /*lus/ |
| Notes | 說文音惟季切 | | 訓讀爲狖 |

#### Definitions

蜼
* (literary) long-tailed monkey (similar to a macaque but larger)
    From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas
    Yuán yǒu xióng, pí, wénhǔ, wèi, bào, lízhū, shìròu. [Pinyin]
    There are the bear, the brown bear, the tiger, the long-tailed monkey, the leopard, the lizhu and the shirou.
    From: 馬融 (Ma Rong), 長笛賦 (“Rhapsody on Long Flute”), in 文選 (wénxuǎn) (Selections of Refined Literature)
    Yuán wèi zhòu yín, wúshǔ yè jiào. [Pinyin]
    The ape and long-tailed monkey sing in the day; the flying squirrel calls at night.
    From: 司馬相如 (Sima Xiangru), 上林賦 (“Fu on the Shanglin Park”), in 文選 (wénxuǎn) (Selections of Refined Literature)
    Yúshìhū xuányuán sù cí, wèi jué fēilěi, zhì tiáo qúnáo, chánhú hù guǐ, qīxī hū qíjiān. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: 吳寬, 次韻啟南淫雨
    Bù biàn guò hé niú, shí kàn guà shù wěi. [Pinyin]
    Not recognizing the cattle that are crossing the river, always seeing the monkeys that are hanging in the trees.

#### Compounds

* 武蜼
* 蜼彝
* 蜼螭
* 豦蜼

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 蜼 – see 䳋 (“a pheasant-like bird with a black body and red feet; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 䳋).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): い (i)、ゆい (yui)、るい (rui)
* Kun: さる (saru)