蝀

蝀	U+8740, 蝀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8740

← 蜿
[U+873F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蝁 →
[U+8741]

Translingual

Han character

蝀 (radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈木田 (LIDW), four-corner 5519₆, composition ⿰虫東)

References

KangXi: page 1088, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33213
Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 29
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2860, character 4
Unihan data for U+8740

Chinese

trad.		蝀
simp.		𬟽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (東) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
東	*toːŋ
菄	*toːŋ
鶇	*toːŋ
倲	*toːŋ
涷	toːŋ, toːŋs
蝀	toːŋ, toːŋʔ
凍	toːŋ, toːŋs
鯟	*toːŋ
崠	*toːŋ
埬	*toːŋ
棟	*toːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *toːŋ, *toːŋʔ) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 東 (OC *toːŋ).

Etymology

Cognate with 虹 (OC *kroːŋs, *koːŋs, *ɡoːŋ). See there for more.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dōng, dòng (dong¹, dong⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥ, ㄉㄨㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dung¹, dung², dung³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ
  - Wade–Giles: tung¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dong
  - IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˋ
  - Wade–Giles: tung⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: donq
  - IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: dung¹, dung², dung³
  - Yale: dūng, dúng, dung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dung¹, dung², dung³
  - Guangdong Romanization: dung¹, dung², dung³
  - IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵/, /tʊŋ³⁵/, /tʊŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /tuŋ/, /tuŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	蝀	蝀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	德紅切	多動切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuŋ/	/tuŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/tuŋ/	/tuŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/tuŋ/	/tuŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təwŋ/	/təwŋ^X/
Li Rong	/tuŋ/	/tuŋ^X/
Wang Li	/tuŋ/	/tuŋ^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuŋ/	/tuŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dōng	dǒng

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*toːŋ/, /*toːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蝀	蝀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2440	2445
Phonetic component	東	東
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	東	董
Old Chinese	/*toːŋ/	/*toːŋʔ/

Definitions

蝀

Only used in 螮蝀／䗖𬟽 (dìdōng, “rainbow”); also short for 螮蝀／䗖𬟽 (dìdōng).

Compounds

玉蝀／玉𬟽
虹蝀／虹𬟽

螮蝀／䗖𬟽 (dìdōng)

金鰲玉蝀／金鳌玉𬟽

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04287
“蝀”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

蝀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

rainbow

Readings

On (unclassified): とう (tō), つ (tsu)

Korean

Hanja

蝀 • (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune–Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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