蜢

蜢	U+8722, 蜢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8722

← 蜡
[U+8721]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蜣 →
[U+8723]

Translingual

Han character

蜢 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓木廿 (LINDT), four-corner 5711₇, composition ⿰虫孟)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1086, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33152
Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2866, character 13
Unihan data for U+8722

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
猛	*mraːŋʔ
艋	*mraːŋʔ
蜢	*mraːŋʔ
皿	*maŋʔ
孟	*mraːŋs

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měng (meng³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁵
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): máng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ma³ / meng³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mé / béng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: měng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: měng
  - Wade–Giles: mêng³
  - Yale: měng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
  - Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: maang⁵
  - Yale: máahng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: mang⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: máng
  - Hakka Romanization System: mang^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mang³
  - Sinological IPA: /maŋ³¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mâ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma³³²/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ³³²/

Note:

ma3 - vernacular;
meng3 - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mé / béng
  - Tâi-lô: mé / béng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mea, beang
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mẽ⁵³/, /biɪŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽ⁵⁵⁴/, /biɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃⁵³/, /biɪŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /mẽ⁵³/, /biɪŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽ⁴¹/, /biɪŋ⁴¹/

Note:

mé - vernacular;
béng - literary.

Middle Chinese: maengX

Rime
Character	蜢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫幸切
Baxter	maengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋ^X/
Li Rong	/mɐŋ^X/
Wang Li	/mɐŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mɐŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	měng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜢
Reading #	1/1
No.	9150
Phonetic component	皿
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋʔ/
Notes	杏由幸校改

Definitions

蜢

only used in 蚱蜢 (zhàměng), 草蜢 (cǎoměng) etc.

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蜢”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.