# 蜎

| 蜎 | U+870E, &#34574; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-870E |
| ← 蜍 [U+870D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蜏 → [U+870F] |
| 蜎 | U+2F9B9, &#195001; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9B9 |
| ← 蚈 [U+2F9B8] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 蛢 → [U+2F9BA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蜎 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口月 (LIRB), four-corner 5612$_7$, composition ⿰虫肙)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1085, character 7
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33115
* Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2855, character 11
* Unihan data for U+870E
* Unihan data for U+2F9B9

## Chinese

* 蜎

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 絹 | *kʷens |
| 狷 | *kʷens, *kʷeːns |
| 蜎 | *ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn |
| 弲 | *qʰʷen, *qʷeːn |
| 娟 | *qʷen |
| 悁 | *qʷen |
| 捐 | *ɢʷen |
| 涓 | *kʷeːn |
| 鵑 | *kʷeːn |
| 睊 | *kʷeːn, *kʷeːns |
| 焆 | *kʷeːn, *qred, *qʷeːd |
| 鞙 | *kʷeːn, *ɡʷeːnʔ |
| 埍 | *kʷeːnʔ, *ɡʷeːnʔ |
| 罥 | *kʷeːnʔ, *kʷeːns |
| 羂 | *kʷleːnʔ |
| 瓹 | *kʷeːns |
| 梋 | *qʰʷeːn |
| 鋗 | *qʰʷeːn |
| 駽 | *qʰʷeːn, *qʰʷeːns |
| 琄 | *ɡʷeːnʔ |
| 剈 | *qʷeːn |
| 肙 | *qʷeːns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn): semantic 虫 + phonetic 肙 (OC *qʷeːns).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yuān (yuan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yuān
*** Zhuyin: ㄩㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yuan
*** Wade–Giles: yüan$^1$
*** Yale: ywān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iuan
*** Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɥɛn⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jyun$^1$
*** Yale: yūn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jyn$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yun$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyːn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: 'wen, 'jwien, gjwienX
Rime :
| Character | 蜎 | 蜎 | 蜎 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 影 (34) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (86) | 仙 (78) | 仙 (78) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | IV | III | III |
| Fanqie | 烏玄切 | 於緣切 | 狂兖切 |
| Baxter | 'wen | 'jwien | gjwienX |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔwen/ | /ʔiuᴇn/ | /ɡiuᴇn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔʷen/ | /ʔʷiɛn/ | /ɡʷiɛn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔuɛn/ | /ʔjuæn/ | /ɡjuæn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔwɛn/ | /ʔwian/ | /gwian$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔuen/ | /ʔiuɛn/ | /ɡiuɛn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /iwen/ | /ĭwɛn/ | /ɡĭwɛn$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʔiwen/ | /ʔi̯wɛn/ | /gi̯wɛn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yuān | yuān | juàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jyun$^1$ | jyun$^1$ | gyun$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷenʔ/, /*qʷˤen/, /*[m-k-qʷ]enʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷenʔ/, /*qʷen/, /*qʷeːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蜎 | 蜎 | 蜎 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yuān | yuān | yuān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔjwien$^X$ › | ‹ ʔwen › | ‹ gjwien$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*qʷenʔ/ | /*qʷˁen/ | /*[m-k-qʷ]enʔ/ |
| English | crawl (as an insect); soft, bending | crawl (as an insect); soft, bending | crawl (as an insect); soft, bending |
| 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 | 蜎 | 蜎 | 蜎 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 16063 | 16067 | 16090 |
| Phonetic component | 肙 | 肙 | 肙 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蜎 | 娟 | 淵 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡʷenʔ/ | /*qʷen/ | /*qʷeːn/ |

### Definitions

蜎
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) mosquito larva

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 蜎 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 孑孓 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 跟頭蟲兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 孑孓 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Langfang | 跟頭蟲兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 跟頭蟲兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tangshan | 跟頭蟲兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Cangzhou | 跟頭蟲 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Baoding | 跟頭蟲兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Shijiazhuang | 跟頭蟲 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 跟頭蟲, 跟頭蟲子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 打老鬼, 孑孓 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 跟頭蟲兒, 孑孓 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Daming | 跟頭蟲兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 顛倒子, 水擔圪斗 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 孑孓, 跟頭蟲 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 跟頭蟲 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 跟頭蟲 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 跟斗兒蟲, 沙蟲子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 跟頭蟲 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 跟斗蟲 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 孑孓 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 跟斗蟲 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Nanning (Wuming) | 沙蟲, 孑孓 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 蠓蟲 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 孑孓, 沙蟲, 沙屎蟲, 蚊蟲, 紅蟲 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 孑孓, 沙蟲 |
| Cantonese | Kaiping (Chikan) | 逕蟲 |
| Cantonese | Nanning | 沙蟲 |
| Cantonese | Nanning (Tanka) | 沙蟲 |
| Cantonese | Wuzhou | 沙蟲 |
| Cantonese | Yulin | 曲曲蛆 |
| Cantonese | Hepu (Lianzhou) | 沙蟲 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 沙蟲 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 屎蛆仔, 水蛆仔, 蛆仔 |
| Hakka | Wuhua (Huacheng) | 沙蟲 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 沙蟲子 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 打滾蟲 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 道跌子 |
| Jin | Taiyuan (Jiancaoping) | 道跌子 |
| Jin | Pingyao | 卜來來 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 吊孑子 |
| Jin | Zhangjiakou | 耍錢棍兒 |
| Jin | Handan | 跟頭蟲子 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 變魚蟲 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 把啷鼓墜 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 車蛆, 蛆 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 車蛆, 蛆 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 車蛆 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 車蛆, 蛆 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 水蛆 |
| Southern Min | Zhangping (Yongfu) | 末仔 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 蛆 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 蛆, 大頭蛆 |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 蛆蟲 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 雨蟲 |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 蛆, 蛆蟲 |
| Puxian Min | Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang) | 蛆 |
| Puxian Min | Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang) | 蛆 |
| Puxian Min | Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu) | 蛆蟲 |
| Puxian Min | Xianyou | 蛆 |
| Puxian Min | Xianyou (Fengting) | 蛆 |
| Puxian Min | Xianyou (Youyang) | 蛆 |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Sanxiang) | 蠓蟲 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 沙蟲 |
| Northern Pinghua | Guilin (Dahe) | 沙蟲 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 打拳蛆 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 孓襻蟲 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 打拳蟲 |
| Wu | Danyang | 水孑孓, 彎蟲 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 倒督蟲兒 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 棲蟲 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 蛆蟲 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 骨骨蟲, 各各蟲 |
| Wu | Jinhua (Tangxi) | 糞缸蟲 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 沙蟲子 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 紅紗蟲 |

### Compounds

* 蜎蜎
* 蟺蜎

### References

* “蜎”, 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): えん (en)、けん (ken)、げん (gen)
* Kun: ぼうふら (bōfura)