蛍

蛍 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月中一戈 (FBLMI), composition ⿱𰃮虫)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1081, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32983
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 4, page 2845, character 4
• Unihan data for U+86CD

Japanese shinjitai character. Simplified from 螢 (𤇾 → 𰃮).

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 螢)

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←ぎやう (gyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)^{←けい (kei, historical)←くゑい (kwei, ancient)}
• Kun: ほたる (hotaru, 蛍, Jōyō)

 

 ホタル on Japanese Wikipedia

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshú, compiled some time after 759 CE.^[1] Ultimate derivation unknown.

• The initial ho element is almost certainly the ancient form of 火 (hi, “fire”), which appears as ho in compounds such as 炎 (honō, “flame”, originally from ho no ho) or 火屋 (hoya, “lamp chimney”).
• Various theories exist regarding the taru portion. This may be from classical verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down, to droop”, in reference to a firefly's posterior; modern form 垂れる (tareru)), or a vowel shift from verb 照る (teru, “to shine”).

• (Tokyo) ほたる [hóꜜtàrù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ho̞ta̠ɾɯ̟]

蛍(ほたる) or 蛍(ホタル) • (hotaru) 

1. a firefly

   火(ほ)垂(た)るの墓(はか)

   Hotaru no Haka

   Grave of the Fireflies

   • 1991 July 15, Mitsuru Adachi, “魔(ま)法(ほう)の粉(こな)の巻(まき) [Magical Powder]”, in [虹色とうがらし](ＮＩＪＩ－ＩＲＯ　ＴＯＨＧＡＲＡＳＨＩ) [Rainbow-Colored Peppers], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 30:

     しってるか、ホタルってのは虫(むし)だぞ。

     Shitteru ka, hotaru tte no wa mushi da zo.

     Did you not know fireflies were insects too?

蛍(ほたる) • (Hotaru) 

1. a female given name

From Middle Chinese 螢 (MC hweng, “firefly”).

蛍(けい) • (kei) 

1. used in various compounds to refer to fluorescence

蛍(けい) • (Kei) 

1. a female given name

蛍 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune–Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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蛍 (POTARU) (kana ほたる)

1. firefly