# 螫

| 螫 | U+87AB, &#34731; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87AB |
| ← 螪 [U+87AA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 螬 → [U+87AC] |

## Translingual
### Han character

螫 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土大中一戈 (GKLMI), four-corner 4813$_6$, composition ⿱赦虫)
* poison
* sting
* poisonous insect

#### Derived characters

* 𭌤

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1094, character 48
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33491
* Dae Jaweon: page 1559, character 21
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2882, character 15
* Unihan data for U+87AB

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 浾 | *sqraː |
| 嚇 | *qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ |
| 赦 | *hljaɡs |
| 郝 | *qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ |
| 赫 | *qʰraːɡ |
| 爀 | *qʰraːɡ |
| 赤 | *kʰljaɡ |
| 烾 | *kʰljaɡ |
| 螫 | *qʰjaːɡ |
| 赥 | *qʰleːɡ |
| 捇 | *qʰʷreːɡ |
| 焃 | *qʰʷreːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰjaːɡ) : phonetic 赦 (OC *hljaɡs) + semantic 虫 (“bug”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shì, zhē (shi$^4$, zhe$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ, ㄓㄜ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sik$^1$ / cik$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhioh
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shì
*** Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
*** Wade–Giles: shih$^4$
*** Yale: shr̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
*** Palladius: ши (ši)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhē
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄜ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhe
*** Wade–Giles: chê$^1$
*** Yale: jē
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: je
*** Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sik$^1$ / cik$^1$
*** Yale: sīk / chīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sik$^7$ / tsik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xig$^1$ / qig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɪk̚⁵/, /t͡sʰɪk̚⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhioh
*** Tâi-lô: tshioh
*** Phofsit Daibuun: chioiq
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰioʔ⁵/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɤʔ³²/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡sʰioʔ³²/
* Middle Chinese: syek
Rime :
| Character | 螫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 昔 (123) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 施隻切 |
| Baxter | syek |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɕiᴇk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɕiɛk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɕiæk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɕiajk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ɕiɛk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ɕĭɛk̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɕi̯ɛk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sik$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l̥]Ak/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰjaːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 螫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ syek › |
| Old Chinese | /*[l̥]Ak/ |
| English | sting (v.) |
| 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 | 螫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1481 |
| Phonetic component | 赤 |
| Rime group | 鐸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 釋 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰjaːɡ/ |

### Definitions

螫
* (literary or Hokkien) to sting; to bite (of venomous insects such as spiders, bees, etc.)
* (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to use one's beak to bite or tug (of ducks, geese, etc.)

### Compounds

* 撩蜂吃螫
* 蝎蝎螫螫
* 螫傷 / 螫伤
* 螫蠅 / 螫蝇
* 蠍蠍螫螫 / 蝎蝎螫螫
* 辛螫

### References

* “螫”, 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): せき (seki)、かく (kaku)
* Kun: さす (sasu)