蟹
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Translingual
Han character
蟹 (radical 142, 虫+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓手中一戈 (NQLMI), four-corner 27136, composition ⿱解虫)
References
- KangXi: page 1098, character 49
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33668
- Dae Jaweon: page 1563, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2898, character 2
- Unihan data for U+87F9
Chinese
trad. | 蟹 | |
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simp. # | 蟹 | |
variant forms | 蠏 䲒 𩼠 |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 蟹 |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
Small seal script |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (解) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
薢 | *kreː, *kreːʔ, *kreːs |
解 | *kreːʔ, *kreːs, *ɡreːʔ, *ɡreːs |
檞 | *kreːʔ |
懈 | *kreːs |
繲 | *kreːs |
廨 | *kreːs |
蟹 | *ɡreːʔ |
獬 | *ɡreːʔ |
澥 | *ɡreːʔ |
嶰 | *ɡreːʔ |
邂 | *ɡreːs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡreːʔ) : phonetic 解 (OC *kreːʔ, *kreːs, *ɡreːʔ, *ɡreːs) + semantic 虫. Originally written as 蠏.
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k(j)aːj (“crab”). Compare S'gaw Karen ဆွဲၣ် (hswɛ̀).
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Compounds
Japanese
Etymology
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Kanji in this term |
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蟹 |
かに Jinmeiyō |
kun’yomi |
From Old Japanese. Possibly a compound of 殻 (kara, “shell”) + 丹 (ni, “red”). Possibly cognate with Korean 게 (ge, “crab”); compare the Jeju dialect word 깅이 (ging-i, “crab”).
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as カニ.
Kikai
Kanji
蟹 (hiragana がにー, romaji ganī)
Korean
Hanja
蟹 • (hae) (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune–Reischauer hae, Yale hay)
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Miyako
Oki-No-Erabu
Kanji
蟹 (hiragana がに, romaji gani)
Okinawan
Kanji
蟹 (hiragana がに, romaji gani)
Vietnamese
Han character
蟹 (giải)
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