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U+86A4, 蚤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86A4

[U+86A3]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+86A5]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 142, +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中一戈 (EILMI), four-corner 17136, composition (TJKV) or (G))

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1078, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32893
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1547, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2836, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+86A4

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (insect) + (claw) – a scratching insect/pest.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tsawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sawX/
Li
Rong
/t͡sɑuX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sɑuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zou2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*tsˁuʔ/
English flea

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. 16552
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsuːʔ/

Definitions

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  1. flea
  2. Alternative form of

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: そう ()
  • Kan-on: そう ()
  • Kun: のみ (nomi, )はやい (hayai)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
のみ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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蚤 (nomi): an illustration of a flea.

Possibly derived from 飲み (nomi), the nominalized 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 飲む (nomu, to drink), from the way that fleas drink the host's blood.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(のみ) or (ノミ) (nomi

  1. flea (parasitic insect)

Usage notes

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As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ノミ.

Derived terms

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Idioms

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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(eum (jo))

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Okinawan

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. flea

Readings

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
ぬみ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Cognate with Japanese (nomi).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ぬみ) (numi

  1. flea

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: tao

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