蝦

See also: 虾
蝦 U+8766, 蝦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8766
← 蝥
[U+8765] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蝧 →
[U+8767]

Translingual

Han character

蝦 (radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈口尸水 (LIRSE), four-corner 57147, composition ⿰虫叚)

References
  • KangXi: page 1090, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33299
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2874, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8766

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 蝦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰraː, *ɡraː) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 叚 (OC *kraːʔ).

Etymology 1
trad. 蝦
simp. 虾
variant forms 鰕／𫚥
𧎂

Pronunciation
Note:
  • ha4 - used in compounds;
  • ha4* - used alone.
Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taiwan:
    • hê - vernacular;
    • hâ - literary.
Note: 1hoe - diminutive.
Note:
  • ha1 - vernacular;
  • xia1 - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 蝦 (魚蝦)
Mandarin Beijing /ɕia⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕia⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑ²¹/
Jinan /ɕia²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕia²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕia²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕia²¹/
Xining /ɕia⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕia⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕia³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕia⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕia⁵⁵/
Chengdu /xa⁵⁵/
/ɕia⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕia⁵⁵/
/xa⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕia̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ɕiɑ³¹/
Hefei /ɕia²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕia¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɑ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕia³¹/
Wu Shanghai /hø⁵³/
/ho⁵³/
Suzhou /ho⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɑ³³/
Wenzhou /ho³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕia³¹/
/xa³¹/
Tunxi /xɔn²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ɕia³³/
/xa³³/
Xiangtan /hɒ³³/
Gan Nanchang /hɑ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /ha¹¹/
Taoyuan /hɑ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ha⁵⁵/
Nanning /ha⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ha⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ha³⁵/
/he³⁵/ 匣母
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ha⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xa³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /he⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hɛ³¹/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝦
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˁra/
English shrimp

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蝦
Reading # 1/2
No. 5962
Phonetic
component		 叚
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰraː/
Notes 見楚辭九懷

Definitions

蝦

  1. shrimp; prawn; lobster (Classifier: 隻／只 m c)
    毛蝦 / 毛虾  ―  máoxiā  ―  shrimp
    明蝦 / 明虾  ―  míngxiā  ―  prawn
    龍蝦 / 龙虾  ―  lóngxiā  ―  lobster
    蝦片 / 虾片  ―  xiāpiàn  ―  prawn crackers
  2. to bend; to curve; to flex
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 蝦 (“shrimp; prawn”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 蝦
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 蝦
Mandarin Beijing 蝦
Taiwan 蝦, 蝦子
Harbin 蝦
Shenyang 蝦
Jinan 蝦
Muping 蝦
Luoyang 蝦
Wanrong 蝦
Xi'an 蝦
Zhengzhou 馬蝦
Xining 蝦
Xuzhou 馬蝦, 蝦
Yinchuan 蝦
Lanzhou 蝦
Ürümqi 蝦米
Wuhan 蝦子
Chengdu 蝦子, 蝦
Guiyang 蝦子
Liuzhou 蝦公, 蝦子
Kunming 蝦
Yangzhou 蝦子
Nanjing 蝦子
Hefei 蝦子
Nantong 蝦兒
Cantonese Guangzhou 蝦, 蝦公
Hong Kong 蝦
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 蝦公
Foshan 蝦
Shunde 蝦
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 蝦公
Doumen (Shangheng Tanka) 蝦
Taishan 蝦
Kaiping (Chikan) 蝦
Dongguan 蝦, 蝦公
Shaoguan 蝦
Yunfu 蝦公
Yangjiang 蝦
Xinyi 蝦
Lianjiang 蝦
Danzhou 蝦
Kuala Lumpur 蝦
Gan Nanchang 蝦子
Lichuan 蝦公
Pingxiang 蝦公
Hakka Meixian 蝦公
Xingning 蝦公
Huidong 蝦公
Qujiang 蝦公
Xiaosanjiang 蝦公
Changting 蝦公
Pingyu 蝦公
Wuping 蝦公
Liancheng 蝦公
Ninghua 蝦公
Yudu 蝦蟲
Ruijin 蝦公
Shicheng 蝦公
Shangyou 蝦公
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 蝦公
Liudui (S. Sixian) 蝦公
Hsinchu (Hailu) 蝦公
Dongshi (Dabu) 蝦公
Hsinchu (Raoping) 蝦公
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 蝦
Hong Kong 蝦公
Sabah 蝦
Senai 蝦公
Singkawang 蝦公
Huizhou Jixi 蝦蝦
Jin Taiyuan 蝦
Xinzhou 蝦兒
Min Bei Jian'ou 蝦
Min Dong Fuzhou 蝦
Fuqing 蝦
Min Nan Xiamen 蝦
Quanzhou 蝦
Zhangzhou 蝦
Taipei 蝦仔
Kaohsiung 蝦仔
Tainan 蝦仔
Taichung 蝦仔
Wuqi 蝦仔
Hsinchu 蝦仔
Taitung 蝦仔
Lukang 蝦仔
Yilan 蝦仔
Magong 蝦仔
Penang 蝦
Singapore 蝦
Chaozhou 蝦
Haifeng 蝦
Johor Bahru 蝦
Wenchang 蝦
Haikou 蝦
Leizhou 蝦
Pinghua Nanning 蝦
Wu Shanghai 蝦
Suzhou 蝦
Wuxi 蝦
Hangzhou 蝦兒
Wenzhou 蝦兒
Chongming 蝦
Danyang 沼蝦
Jinhua 蝦公, 蝦兒
Ningbo 蝦
Xiang Changsha 蝦公子, 蝦子
Shuangfeng 蝦公子
Xiangtan 蝦公子
Loudi 蝦公子

Compounds
Derived terms from 蝦

Etymology 2
trad. 蝦
simp. 虾

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 蝦
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣa/
Wang
Li		 /ɣa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiá
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝦
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 há
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˁra/
English hae-mae frog

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蝦
Reading # 2/2
No. 5968
Phonetic
component		 叚
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 遐
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡraː/

Definitions

蝦

  1. Only used in 蝦蟆／虾蟆.

Compounds
Derived terms from 蝦

Etymology 3
trad. 蝦
simp. 虾
variant forms 㗇

Compare Zhuang ha.

Pronunciation

Definitions

蝦

  1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Southwestern Mandarin, Zhongshan Min) to bully; to pick on

Etymology 4
For pronunciation and definitions of 蝦 – see 霞 (“the light and clouds at sunrise and sunset; mist; rosy clouds; etc.”).
(This character, 蝦, is an ancient form of 霞.)

Etymology 5
For pronunciation and definitions of 蝦 – see 徦 (“to reach, to arrive; to come; etc.”).
(This character, 蝦, is a variant form of 徦.)

Japanese

Kanji
蝦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. lobster
  2. prawn
  3. shrimp

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
蝦
えび
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

蝦 (hiragana えび, katakana エビ, rōmaji ebi)

  1. Alternative spelling of 海老 (ebi): any long-tailed decapod crustacean or arthropod: crayfish, lobster, prawn, shrimp, etc.; a padlock; a type of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)
Derived terms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
蝦
かえる
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

蝦 (hiragana かえる, katakana カエル, rōmaji kaeru, historical hiragana かへる, historical katakana カヘル)

  1. Alternative spelling of 蛙 (kaeru): a frog (amphibious animal)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

蝦 • (ha) (hangeul 하, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝦 (hà)

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