虺
See also: 蝰
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Translingual
[edit]Han character
[edit]虺 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一山中一戈 (MULMI), four-corner 15213, composition ⿺兀虫)
Derived characters
[edit]References
[edit]- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32833
- Dae Jaweon: page 1545, character 26
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2834, character 15
- Unihan data for U+867A
Chinese
[edit]simp. and trad. |
虺 | |
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alternative forms | 虫 ancient 螝 𩗝 𡯥 𧉇 |
Glyph origin
[edit]Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *hŋuːl, *hŋruːl, *hŋlulʔ) : phonetic 兀 (OC *ŋuːd) + semantic 虫.
Etymology
[edit]- “venomous snake”
- From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”). Cognate with Tibetan སྦྲུལ (sbrul), Japhug qapri, Chepang रु (ru), Burmese မြွေ (mrwe), S'gaw Karen ဂုၢ် (ghu̱).
Pronunciation 1
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: huěi
- Wade–Giles: hui3
- Yale: hwěi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hoei
- Palladius: хуэй (xuej)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: wai2
- Yale: wái
- Cantonese Pinyin: wai2
- Guangdong Romanization: wei2
- Sinological IPA (key): /wɐi̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: xjw+jX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r̥]u[j]ʔ/, /*r̥u[j]ʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*hŋlulʔ/
Definitions
[edit]虺
- (Chinese mythology) a kind of venomous snake
- 吉夢維何、
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Jí mèng wéi hé,
Wéi xióng wéi pí,
Wéi huǐ wéi shé. [Pinyin] - What dreams are lucky?
They have been about black bears and brown bears,
They have been about asps and adders.
維熊維羆、
維虺維蛇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
吉梦维何、
维熊维罴、
维虺维蛇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- 1919, 《新舊約全書:官話和合譯本》 [Mandarin Bible, Union Version], Shanghai: American Bible Society:
- 但必作道上的蛇、路中的虺、咬傷馬蹄、使騎馬的墜落於後。 [MSC, trad.]
- Dàn bì zuò dào shang de shé, lù zhōng de huǐ, yǎoshāng mǎtí, shǐ qímǎ de zhuìluò yú hòu. [Pinyin]
- Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward. [World English Bible]
但必作道上的蛇、路中的虺、咬伤马蹄、使骑马的坠落于后。 [MSC, simp.]
- (Waxiang) snake
Synonyms
[edit]Compounds
[edit]Pronunciation 2
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟ
- Tongyong Pinyin: huei
- Wade–Giles: hui1
- Yale: hwēi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huei
- Palladius: хуэй (xuej)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: fui1
- Yale: fūi
- Cantonese Pinyin: fui1
- Guangdong Romanization: fui1
- Sinological IPA (key): /fuːi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: xweaj, xwoj
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r̥]ˤu[j]/
- (Zhengzhang): /*hŋuːl/, /*hŋruːl/
Definitions
[edit]虺
- Used in 虺隤/虺𬯎 (“sick; ambitionless”).
Compounds
[edit]References
[edit]- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04215
- “虺”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
[edit]Kanji
[edit]虺
Readings
[edit]- Go-on: け (ke)←け (ke, historical)←くゑ (kwe, ancient)
- Kan-on: き (ki)←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)
- Kun: まむし (mamushi, 虺)
Alternative forms
[edit]- (ancient form) 虫
Korean
[edit]Hanja
[edit]虺 • (hwe) (hangeul 훼, revised hwe, McCune–Reischauer hwe, Yale hwey)
Vietnamese
[edit]Han character
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