蚤

蚤 (radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中一戈 (EILMI), four-corner 1713₆, composition ⿱㕚虫(TJKV) or ⿱叉虫(G))

• 搔 (掻)

• KangXi: page 1078, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32893
• Dae Jaweon: page 1547, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2836, character 3
• Unihan data for U+86A4

Historical forms of the character 蚤
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 虫 (“insect”) + 㕚 (“claw”) – a scratching insect/pest.

蚤

1. flea
2. ^† Alternative form of 早.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: のみ (nomi, 蚤); はやい (hayai)

蚤 (nomi): an illustration of a flea.

Possibly derived from 飲み (nomi), the nominalized 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 飲む (nomu, “to drink”), from the way that fleas drink the host's blood.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) のみ​ [nòmíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [no̞mʲi]

蚤 (hiragana のみ, katakana ノミ, rōmaji nomi)

1. a flea (parasitic insect)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ノミ.

蚤 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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蚤 (hiragana ぬみ, romaji numi)

Cognate with Japanese 蚤 (nomi).

• IPA^(key): /numi/

蚤 (hiragana ぬみ, romaji numi)

1. flea

蚤 (tao)

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