虻

虻 U+867B, 虻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-867B ← 虺 [U+867A] CJK Unified Ideographs 虼 → [U+867C]

虻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜女 (LIYV), four-corner 5011₀, composition ⿰虫亡)

1. horsefly, gadfly

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32835
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2835, character 12
• Unihan data for U+867B

trad.		虻
simp. #		虻
alternative forms		蝱／虻 䖟

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b-(r/j)aŋ (“fly, bee”). Cognate with 蠅 (OC *m-rəŋ > *m-ləŋ, “fly”), Tibetan སྦྲང་བུ (sbrang bu, “bee”), Burmese ယင် (yang, “fly”), Chepang याङ् (“insect; fly”), Japhug ɣʑo (“bee”) (STEDT; Coblin, 1986; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter & Sagart, 2014; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

虻

1. horsefly; gadfly

• “虻”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “虻”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 154.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. horsefly

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: もう (mō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: あぶ (abu, 虻)

Kanji in this term
虻
あぶ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
蝱

• (Tokyo) あぶ [áꜜbù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [a̠bɯ̟]

虻(あぶ) or 虻(アブ) • (abu) 

1. a horsefly

• 花虻(ハナアブ) (hanābu)

• Yoshida, Masatoshi et.al. Kodansha's Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary. Tokyo: Kodansha International (JPN), 1993. →ISBN.

虻 • (meong) (hangeul 멍, revised meong, McCune–Reischauer mŏng, Yale meng)

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