# 蠃

| 蠃 | U+8803, &#34819; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8803 |
| ← 蠂 [U+8802] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蠄 → [U+8804] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蠃 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓中一戈 (YNLMI), four-corner 0021$_7$, composition ⿱吂⿲月虫凡)

#### Derived characters

* 𫨁, 𫂯

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1099, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33685
* Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2122, character 17
* Unihan data for U+8803

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 蠃
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 驘 | *roːl |
| 鸁 | *roːl |
| 蠃 | *roːl, *roːlʔ |
| 臝 | *roːlʔ |
| 羸 | *rol |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): luǒ (luo$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lo$^2$ / lo$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: luǒ
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: luǒ
*** Wade–Giles: lo$^3$
*** Yale: lwǒ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoo
*** Palladius: ло (lo)
*** Sinological IPA : /lu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lo$^2$ / lo$^5$
*** Yale: ló / lóh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lo$^2$ / lo$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lo$^2$ / lo$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɔː³⁵/, /lɔː¹³/
* Middle Chinese: lwaX
Rime :
| Character | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 戈 (95) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 郎果切 |
| Baxter | lwaX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /luɑ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /luɑ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /luɑ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lwa$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /luɑ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /luɑ$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /luɑ$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | luǒ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lo$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*rˤorʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*roːlʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | luǒ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lwa$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*rˁorʔ/ (*kˁorʔ.rˁorʔ, redup. infixation < *kˁorʔ ?) |
| English | 蜾蠃 kwaX.lwaX a kind of wasp |
| 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 | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| No. | 8692 |
| Phonetic component | 蠃 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 裸 |
| Old Chinese | /*roːlʔ/ |

#### Definitions

蠃
* Only used in 蜾蠃 (guǒluǒ).

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): luó (luo$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lo$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: luó
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: luó
*** Wade–Giles: lo$^2$
*** Yale: lwó
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luo
*** Palladius: ло (lo)
*** Sinological IPA : /lu̯ɔ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lo$^4$
*** Yale: lòh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lo$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lo$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɔː²¹/
* Middle Chinese: lwa
Rime :
| Character | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 戈 (95) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 落戈切 |
| Baxter | lwa |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /luɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /luɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /luɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lwa/ |
| Li Rong | /luɑ/ |
| Wang Li | /luɑ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /luɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | luó |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lo$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*roːl/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蠃 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| No. | 8690 |
| Phonetic component | 蠃 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𩼊 |
| Old Chinese | /*roːl/ |
| Notes | 說文又義後作螺 |

#### Definitions

蠃
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 螺 (luó)
    From: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 14th century CE
    zhǐ tīng dé xīmén shàng chuī luó ké shēng [Pinyin]
    The only thing that could be heard was the sound of someone blowing a conch shell from the top of the city's western gate.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ら (ra)、か (ka)
* Kun: かたつむり (katatsumuri)

## Korean
### Hanja

蠃 • (ra>na) (hangeul 라>나, McCune–Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

蠃: Hán Nôm readings: lòa/loà, lỏa/loả
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#### References

* Nom Foundation