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U+8805, 蠅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8805

[U+8804]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8806]

Translingual[edit]

Traditional
Shinjitai
(extended)
Simplified

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 142, +13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口難山 (LIRXU), four-corner 56116, composition )

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1099, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33690
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2897, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8805

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *b·lɯŋ) : semantic (insect) + phonetic (OC *mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *mreːŋʔ).

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b-(r/j)aŋ (fly; bee). Compare (OC mˁraŋ, “"horsefly"”), Tibetan སྦྲང་བུ (sbrang bu, bee), Burmese ယင် (yang, fly), Chepang याङ् (insect; fly), Japhug ɣʑo (bee) (STEDT; Coblin, 1986; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • sìng - vernacular;
  • ìng - literary.
Note:
  • sîn - vernacular;
  • êng - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter ying
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/jɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jiŋ/
Li
Rong
/iəŋ/
Wang
Li
/jĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yíng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jing4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yíng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ying ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-rəŋ/
English fly (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9171
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*b·lɯŋ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. fly; housefly

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Kanji[edit]

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

Kanji in this term
はえ > はい
Hyōgaiji
irregular
Kanji in this term
はえ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

(はえ) or (ハエ) (haeはへ (fafe)?
(alternative reading hiragana はい, rōmaji hai, historical hiragana はひ)

  1. Kyūjitai form of (fly) (insect of the family Muscidae)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eum (seung))

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