螌

螌 U+878C, 螌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-878C ← 螋 [U+878B] CJK Unified Ideographs 融 → [U+878D]

Translingual

Han character

螌 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹水中一戈 (HELMI), composition ⿱般虫)

1. a striped, poisonous fly

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1092, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33383
• Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2879, character 12
• Unihan data for U+878C

Chinese

trad.		螌
simp. #		螌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (般) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
螌	*praːn
般	*praːn, *paːn, *baːn
媻	*baːl, *baːn
搫	*baːl, *baːn
搬	*paːn
盤	*baːn
磐	*baːn
瘢	*baːn
幋	*baːn
槃	*baːn
縏	*baːn
鎜	*baːn
鞶	*baːn

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bān (ban¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ban
    • Wade–Giles: pan¹
    • Yale: bān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
    • Palladius: бань (banʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baan¹
    • Yale: bāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ban¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: paen

Rime
Character	螌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	布還切
Baxter	paen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠan/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/pɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨn/
Li Rong	/pan/
Wang Li	/pan/
Bernard Karlgren	/pan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*praːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	螌
Reading #	1/1
No.	226
Phonetic component	般
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	班
Old Chinese	/*praːn/

Definitions

螌

1. Only used in 螌蝥 (“cantharis; Spanish fly”).

Compounds

• 螌蝥 (bānmáo)

 

Japanese

Kanji

螌

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): はん (han)、ばん (ban)

Korean

Hanja

螌 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune–Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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