# 蜷

| 蜷 | U+8737, &#34615; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8737 |
| ← 蜶 [U+8736] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蜸 → [U+8738] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蜷 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火手山 (LIFQU), four-corner 5911$_2$, composition ⿰虫卷)
* creep like a worm, curl one's body

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1087, character 32
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33199
* Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2865, character 15
* Unihan data for U+8737

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 腃 | *kʰruls, *ɡron |
| 卷 | *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ |
| 菤 | *kronʔ |
| 捲 | *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡron |
| 埢 | *kronʔ |
| 睠 | *krons |
| 弮 | *kʰron, *krons |
| 犈 | *krons, *ɡron |
| 棬 | *kʰron |
| 鬈 | *kʰron, *ɡron |
| 圈 | *kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons |
| 蜷 | *ɡron |
| 踡 | *ɡron |
| 婘 | *ɡron |
| 蔨 | *ɡronʔ, *ɡrunʔ |
| 倦 | *ɡrons |
| 淃 | *ɡrons |
| 綣 | *kʰonʔ, *kʰons |
| 裷 | *kʰonʔ, *qon |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡron) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): quán (quan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kyun$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khûn
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: quán
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cyuán
*** Wade–Giles: chʻüan$^2$
*** Yale: chywán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
*** Palladius: цюань (cjuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kyun$^4$
*** Yale: kyùhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kyn$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kün$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰyːn²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khûn
*** Tâi-lô: khûn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: quun
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kʰun²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰun²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰun¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kʰun²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰun²³/
* Middle Chinese: gjwen
Rime :
| Character | 蜷 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (80) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 巨員切 |
| Baxter | gjwen |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɡˠiuᴇn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɡʷᵚiɛn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɡiuæn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /gwian/ |
| Li Rong | /ɡjuɛn/ |
| Wang Li | /ɡĭwɛn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /gi̯wɛn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | quán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | kyun$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡron/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蜷 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7191 |
| Phonetic component | 卷 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 權 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡron/ |
| Notes | 見離騷 |

### Definitions

蜷
* (of the body) to curl; to coil; to huddle; to wriggle

### Compounds

* 蜷伏
* 蜷局 (quánjú)
* 蜷屈
* 蜷曲 (quánqū)
* 蜷縮／蜷缩 (quánsuō)
* 蜷蜿
* 連蜷／连蜷

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* certain snails; elongate snail, spiral-shelled snail

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): けん (ken)
* Kun: にな (nina, 蜷)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 蜷
* にな Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
From Old Japanese 蜷 (mi$_1$na), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mina.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) にな [nìnáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
* IPA: [ɲ̟ina̠]

### Noun

蜷(にな) or 蜷(ニナ) • (nina)
* Synonym of 川蜷 (kawanina, “melanian snail, Semisulcospira libertina, an edible freshwater snail”)

#### Synonyms

* 蜷貝(ニナがい) (ninagai)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

蜷 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)
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