蚺
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Translingual
Han character
蚺 (radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈土月 (LIGB), four-corner 55157, composition ⿰虫冉)
- a boa constrictor
References
- KangXi: page 1079, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32931
- Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2843, character 1
- Unihan data for U+86BA
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
蚺 | |
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| variant forms | 蚦 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (冉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 那 | *naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls |
| 挪 | *naːl |
| 娜 | *naːlʔ |
| 柟 | *noːm, *njam, *njamʔ |
| 抩 | *noːm |
| 聃 | *n̥ʰaːm, *n̥ʰaːm |
| 舑 | *n̥ʰaːm, *njam |
| 坍 | *n̥ʰaːm |
| 髯 | *njam, *njams |
| 蚺 | *njam |
| 呥 | *njam |
| 冉 | *njam, *njamʔ |
| 袡 | *njam |
| 苒 | *njamʔ |
| 姌 | *njamʔ, *neːmʔ |
Etymology
For Cantonese word naːm²¹, compare Thai เหลือม (lʉ̌ʉam, “python”) and Zhuang nuem (“python”).
Pronunciation
Compounds
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References
- “蚺”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
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