# 蜉

| 蜉 | U+8709, &#34569; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8709 |
| ← 蜈 [U+8708] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蜊 → [U+870A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蜉 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月弓木 (LIBND), four-corner 5214$_7$, composition ⿰虫孚)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1084, character 22
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33104
* Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 7
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2857, character 3
* Unihan data for U+8709

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 殍 | *brɯwʔ, *browʔ, *pʰuw |
| 脬 | *pʰruː |
| 捊 | *bruː, *buw |
| 莩 | *browʔ, *pʰuw |
| 哹 | *pu, *bu |
| 浮 | *bu |
| 蜉 | *bu |
| 桴 | *bu, *pʰuw |
| 罦 | *bu, *pʰuw |
| 琈 | *bu |
| 粰 | *bu |
| 烰 | *bu |
| 艀 | *bu |
| 俘 | *pʰuw |
| 孚 | *pʰuw |
| 孵 | *pʰuw |
| 稃 | *pʰuw |
| 郛 | *pʰuw |
| 筟 | *pʰuw |

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bəw (“insect, bug, vermin, snake”); cognate with Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect”), Tibetan འབུ ('bu, “iworm, bug”), Apatani ta-bu (“snake”), bu-rũ & bu-di (“python”), Southern Qiang bù ló (bug, maggot), etc. (STEDT). Schuessler (2007) also proposes cognacy with Tibetan སྦུར (sbur, “ant”), yet STEDT doesn't.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fú (fu$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fau$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hû
    (Teochew, Peng'im): pu$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fú
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fú
*** Wade–Giles: fu$^2$
*** Yale: fú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
*** Palladius: фу (fu)
*** Sinological IPA : /fu³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fau$^4$
*** Yale: fàuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fau$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: feo$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɐu̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
*** Tâi-lô: hû
*** Phofsit Daibuun: huu
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /hu²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: pu$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phû
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰu⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: bjuw
Rime :
| Character | 蜉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 縛謀切 |
| Baxter | bjuw |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /bɨu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /biu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /biəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /buw/ |
| Li Rong | /biu/ |
| Wang Li | /bĭəu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /bʱi̯ə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fóu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fau$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b](r)u/
    (Zhengzhang): /*bu/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蜉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | fú |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ bjuw › |
| Old Chinese | /*[b](r)u/ |
| English | mayfly |
| 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 | 蜉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3347 |
| Phonetic component | 孚 |
| Rime group | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 浮 |
| Old Chinese | /*bu/ |

### Definitions

蜉
* Only used in 蜉蝣 (fúyóu) and 蚍蜉 (pífú).
* (historical dictionaries only) big ant

#### Compounds

* 撼樹蚍蜉 / 撼树蚍蜉
* 蚍蜉 (pífú)
* 蚍蜉撼大樹 / 蚍蜉撼大树 (pífúhàndàshù)
* 蚍蜉撼樹 / 蚍蜉撼树 (pífúhànshù)
* 蚍蜉酒草
* 蜉蝣 (fúyóu)
* 蜉蝣在世 (fúyóu zàishì)
* 螞蚍蜉 / 蚂蚍蜉

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* mayfly
* large ant

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぶ (bu)
* Kan-on: ふう (fū)
* Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)

#### Compounds

* 蜉蝣(かげろう) (kagerō), 蜉蝣(ふゆう) (fuyū): mayfly
* 蚍蜉(ひふ) (hifu): large ant

## Korean
### Hanja

蜉 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)
* mayfly
* kind of large insect

## Vietnamese
### Han character

蜉: Hán Việt readings: phù
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Compounds

* 蜉蝣 (phù du)