# 蚳

| 蚳 | U+86B3, &#34483; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86B3 |
| ← 蚲 [U+86B2] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蚴 → [U+86B4] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蚳 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹心一 (LIHPM), four-corner 5214$_0$, composition ⿰虫氐)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1079, character 19
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32922
* Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2844, character 10
* Unihan data for U+86B3

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蚳 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |||
| Shizhoupian script | Ancient script | Small seal script |
| | Old Chinese |
| 低 | *tiːl |
| 氐 | *tiːl, *til |
| 袛 | *tiːl |
| 羝 | *tiːl |
| 眡 | *tiːl, *djilʔ |
| 岻 | *tiːl, *dil |
| 奃 | *tiːl |
| 趆 | *tiːl, *tiːls |
| 柢 | *tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls |
| 邸 | *tiːlʔ |
| 底 | *tiːlʔ |
| 詆 | *tiːlʔ, *diːl |
| 坻 | *tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil |
| 抵 | *tiːlʔ |
| 牴 | *tiːlʔ |
| 觝 | *tiːlʔ |
| 弤 | *tiːlʔ |
| 軧 | *tiːlʔ |
| 骶 | *tiːls |
| 砥 | *tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils |
| 胝 | *til |
| 疷 | *til |
| 秪 | *til |
| 泜 | *dil |
| 蚳 | *dil |
| 彽 | *dil |
| 阺 | *dil |
| 貾 | *dil |
| 祗 | *tjil |
| 厎 | *tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ |
| 茋 | *tjilʔ |
| 鴟 | *tʰjil |
| 汦 | *kjeʔ, *tjil |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *dil): semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 氐 (OC *tiːl, *til).

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d(w)əy (“egg; testicle”) (STEDT).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): chí (chi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄔˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ci$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): dì
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: chí
*** Zhuyin: ㄔˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: chíh
*** Wade–Giles: chʻih$^2$
*** Yale: chŕ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyr
*** Palladius: чи (či)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ci$^4$
*** Yale: chìh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsi$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰiː²¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: dì
*** Sinological IPA : /ti⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: drij
Rime :
| Character | 蚳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (17) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 直尼切 |
| Baxter | drij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɖˠiɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɖᵚi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȡiɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɖji/ |
| Li Rong | /ȡji/ |
| Wang Li | /ȡi/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȡʱi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | chí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ci$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]r[ij]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*dil/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蚳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | chí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ drij › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]r[ij]/ |
| English | ant egg |
| 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 | 蚳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2265 |
| Phonetic component | 氐 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 墀 |
| Old Chinese | /*dil/ |

### Definitions

蚳
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) ant eggs
* a surname

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04244

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ち (chi)、じ (ji)、し (shi)、てい (tei)、たい (tai)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

蚳: Hán Việt readings: chỉ, trì
蚳: Nôm readings: đỉa
* chữ Hán form of chỉ (“ant eggs”).
* chữ Hán form of trì (“ant or silkworm eggs”).
* chữ Hán form of Chỉ (“a surname”).
* chữ Nôm form of đỉa (“leech”).

#### References

* ↑ Trần (1999).
* 1 2 Nguyễn (1974).
* ↑ Thiều Chửu (1942).
* ↑ Nguyễn (2014).