鰕

鰕	U+9C15, 鰕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C15

← 鰔
[U+9C14]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鰖 →
[U+9C16]

Translingual

Han character

鰕 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+9, 20 strokes, cangjie input 弓火口尸水 (NFRSE), composition ⿰魚叚)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1475, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46346
Dae Jaweon: page 2006, character 34
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4704, character 5
Unihan data for U+9C15

Chinese

trad.		鰕
simp.		𫚥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
葭	*kraː
麚	*kraː
瘕	kraː, kraːʔ
豭	*kraː
貑	*kraː
猳	*kraː
犌	*kraː
假	kraːʔ, kraːs
嘏	*kraːʔ
婽	*kraːʔ
椵	*kraːʔ
叚	*kraːʔ
蝦	qʰraː, ɡraː
煆	qʰraː, qʰraːs
霞	*ɡraː
遐	*ɡraː
瑕	*ɡraː
鰕	*ɡraː
碬	*ɡraː
蕸	*ɡraː
赮	*ɡraː
鍜	*ɡraː
騢	*ɡraː
暇	*ɡraːs

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiā (xia¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haa¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ha²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiā
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sia
  - Wade–Giles: hsia¹
  - Yale: syā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shia
  - Palladius: ся (sja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: haa¹
  - Yale: hā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ha¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haː⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ha²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: há
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ha¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ha²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ha²⁴/

Middle Chinese: hae

Rime
Character	鰕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡加切
Baxter	hae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨ/
Li Rong	/ɣa/
Wang Li	/ɣa/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haa⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡraː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鰕
Reading #	1/1
No.	5969
Phonetic component	叚
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遐
Old Chinese	/*ɡraː/

Definitions

鰕

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) giant salamander
- 龍魚陵居在其北，狀如狸。一曰鰕。即有神聖乘此以行九野。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  龙鱼陵居在其北，状如狸。一曰𫚥。即有神圣乘此以行九野。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas
  Lóngyú líng jū zài qí běi, zhuàng rú lí. Yī yuē xiā. Jí yǒu shénshèng chéng cǐ yǐ xíng jiǔ yě. [Pinyin]
  The dragon-fish lives on hills to the north [of the Fresh Wilderness]; it looks like a leopard cat/raccoon dog. One calls it the giant salamander. There was a divine sage who rode this to travel the nine wildernesses.
goby
alternative form of 蝦 / 虾 (“shrimp; prawn; lobster”)

Compounds

鰕虎魚 / 𫚥虎鱼
鰕魚 / 𫚥鱼

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “𫚥”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

Japanese

Kanji

鰕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: げ (ge)
Kan-on: か (ka)
Kun: えび (ebi, 鰕)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鰕
えび Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鰕 – see the following entry.

【海老えび】

[noun] any long-tailed decapod crustacean or arthropod:

[noun] a crayfish

[noun] a lobster

[noun] a prawn

[noun] a shrimp

[noun] short for 海老錠 (ebijō): a padlock

[noun] a type of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with an ebi motif

[proper noun] a place name

[proper noun] a surname

Alternative spellings
蝦, 魵, エビ

(This term, 鰕, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

鰕 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

Alternative form of 蝦