蜷

蜷 U+8737, 蜷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8737 ← 蜶 [U+8736] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜸 → [U+8738]

蜷 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈火手山 (LIFQU), four-corner 5911₂, composition ⿰虫卷)

1. creep like a worm, curl one's body

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1087, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33199
• Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2865, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8737

simp. and trad.		蜷

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡron) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ)

蜷

1. (of the body) to curl; to coil; to huddle; to wriggle

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. certain snails; elongate snail, spiral-shelled snail

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: にな (nina, 蜷)

Kanji in this term
蜷
にな Hyōgai
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese 蜷 (mi₁na), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mina.

• (Tokyo) にな [nìnáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ina̠]

蜷(にな) or 蜷(ニナ) • (nina) 

1. Synonym of 川蜷 (kawanina, “melanian snail, Semisulcospira libertina, an edible freshwater snail”)

• 蜷貝(ニナがい) (ninagai)

蜷 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

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