# 螉

| 螉 | U+8789, &#34697; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8789 |
| ← 螈 [U+8788] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 螊 → [U+878A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

螉 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈金戈一 (LICIM), four-corner 5812$_7$, composition ⿰虫翁)

### Further reading

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1092, character 32
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33374
* Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 21
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2880, character 4
* Unihan data for U+8789

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 慃 | *qroːŋʔ |
| 袞 | *kluːnʔ |
| 蔉 | *kluːnʔ |
| 滾 | *kluːnʔ |
| 忩 | *sʰloːŋ |
| 鬆 | *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ |
| 凇 | *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ |
| 公 | *kloːŋ |
| 蚣 | *kloːŋ, *kljoŋ |
| 翁 | *qloːŋ |
| 螉 | *qloːŋ |
| 蓊 | *qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ |
| 嗡 | *qloːŋ |
| 滃 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 暡 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 勜 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 塕 | *qloːŋʔ |
| 瓮 | *qloːŋs |
| 崧 | *sqʰluŋ |
| 菘 | *sqʰluŋ |
| 硹 | *sqʰluŋ |
| 淞 | *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ |
| 蜙 | *sqʰloŋ |
| 倯 | *sqʰloŋ |
| 松 | *sɢloŋ |
| 訟 | *sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs |
| 頌 | *sɢloŋs, *loŋ |
| 忪 | *kljoŋ |
| 彸 | *kljoŋ |
| 衳 | *kljoŋ |
| 伀 | *kljoŋ |
| 妐 | *kljoŋ |
| 炂 | *kljoŋ |
| 鈆 | *kljoŋ, *lon |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qloːŋ) : semantic 虫 (“worm”) + phonetic 翁 (OC *qloːŋ).

### Etymology

Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔuŋ ~ *ʔuəŋ ~ *huŋ ~ *huəŋ (“wasp; hornet”) (whence Proto-Vietic *ʔɔːŋ (“honey bee”) > Vietnamese ong (“bee”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wēng (weng$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄥ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jung$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wēng
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wong
*** Wade–Giles: wêng$^1$
*** Yale: wēng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ueng
*** Palladius: вэн (vɛn)
*** Sinological IPA : /wəŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jung$^1$
*** Yale: yūng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jung$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: 'uwng
Rime :
| Character | 螉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 東 (1) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 烏紅切 |
| Baxter | 'uwng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔuŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔuŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔuŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔəwŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔuŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /uŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔuŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wēng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ung$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qloːŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 螉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4095 |
| Phonetic component | 公 |
| Rime group | 東 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 翁 |
| Old Chinese | /*qloːŋ/ |

### Definitions

螉
* (obsolete) a parasitic insect on the skins of cattle and horses; gadfly

### Compounds

* 牛螉
* 螉䗥／螉𰲯
* 蠓螉
* 蠮螉
* 蠮螉塞
* 醫螉／医螉

### References

* “螉”, 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

* On (unclassified): お (o)、おう (ō)

## Korean
### Hanja

螉 (eumhun 나나니벌 옹 (nananibeol ong))
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### References

* Naver Hanja Dictionary: 螉

## Vietnamese
### Han character

螉: Hán Việt readings: ông
螉: Nôm readings: ong, ông
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### References

* Nom Foundation