# 虵

| 虵 | U+8675, &#34421; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8675 |
| ← 虴 [U+8674] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 虶 → [U+8676] |

## Translingual
### Han character

虵 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心木 (LIPD), composition ⿰虫也)

#### Derived characters

* 𠋞, 𭈽, 𣸚, 𦴍

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1076, character 32
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32820
* Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2836, character 2
* Unihan data for U+8675

## Chinese
### Glyph origin 1

| | Old Chinese |
| 他 | *l̥ʰaːl |
| 拖 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls |
| 駞 | *l'aːl |
| 池 | *l'aːl, *l'al |
| 灺 | *ljalʔ |
| 鍦 | *ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals |
| 虵 | *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal |
| 也 | *laːlʔ |
| 忚 | *hleːl |
| 髢 | *l'eːls |
| 杝 | *l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal |
| 肔 | *l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ |
| 馳 | *l'al |
| 阤 | *l'alʔ, *hljalʔ |
| 施 | *hljal, *hljals |
| 絁 | *hljal |
| 葹 | *hljal |
| 弛 | *hljalʔ |
| 箷 | *lal |
| 衪 | *lel, *lalʔ |
| 暆 | *lel |
| 迆 | *lal, *lalʔ |
| 酏 | *lal, *lalʔ |
| 匜 | *lal, *lalʔ |
| 迤 | *lalʔ |
| 扡 | *lalʔ |
| 崺 | *lalʔ |
| 貤 | *lals, *ɦljels, *lels |
| 地 | *l'els |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal) : semantic 虫 + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

#### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 虵 – see 蛇 (“snake; serpent; illegal immigrant; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 蛇).

#### Etymology 2
##### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yě (ye$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˇ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yě
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yě
*** Wade–Giles: yeh$^3$
*** Yale: yě
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yee
*** Palladius: е (je)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛ²¹⁴/
* Middle Chinese: yaeX
Rime :
| Character | 虵 |
| Reading # | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 麻 (100) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 羊者切 |
| Baxter | yaeX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jia$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jia$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ia$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jia$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ia$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭa$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯a$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yě |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | je$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*laːlʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 虵 |
| Reading # | 2/3 |
| No. | 14774 |
| Phonetic component | 也 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 野 |
| Old Chinese | /*laːlʔ/ |

##### Definitions

虵
* Used in 虵蛭.

### Glyph origin 2

Parallel construction with 他 (“he, him”), 她 (“she, her”), 牠 (“(animal) it”), etc., changing the radical to that of 蛤 (“frog, toad”).

#### Etymology

From 他 (tā).

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tā (ta$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): taa$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tā
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ta
*** Wade–Giles: tʻa$^1$
*** Yale: tā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
*** Palladius: та (ta)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰä⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: taa$^1$
*** Yale: tā
*** Cantonese Pinyin: taa$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ta$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰaː⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

虵
* (neologism, Internet slang) Third-person singular pronoun referring to Jiang Zemin in Moha culture.

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03624

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: い (i)、じゃ (ja)、た (ta)
* Kan-on: い (i)、しゃ (sha)、た (ta)
* Kan’yō-on: だ (da)
* Kun: へび (hebi, 虵)