蠬

蠬	U+882C, 蠬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-882C

← 蠫
[U+882B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蠭 →
[U+882D]

Translingual

Han character

蠬 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 中戈卜月心 (LIYBP), four-corner 5111₁, composition ⿰虫龍)

dragon-like insects

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1102, character 52
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33833
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2905, character 6
Unihan data for U+882C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠬

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lóng (long²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄥˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lóng
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lóng
  - Wade–Giles: lung²
  - Yale: lúng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: long
  - Palladius: лун (lun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊŋ³⁵/

Definitions

蠬

Only used in 蠬蠭／蠬蜂.

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-roːŋ, from Old Chinese 龍 (OC *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ, “dragon”).

Noun

dragon

Descendants

Vietnamese: rồng (蠬)

References

Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “ròu᷄”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

Vietnamese

Han character

蠬: Nôm readings: luồng, rồng

Noun

蠬

Nôm form of rồng (“dragon”).

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