蜢

蜢	U+8722, 蜢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8722

← 蜡
[U+8721]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蜣 →
[U+8723]

Translingual

Han character

蜢 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓木廿 (LINDT), four-corner 5711₇, composition ⿰虫孟)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1086, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33152
Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2866, character 13
Unihan data for U+8722

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
猛	*mraːŋʔ
艋	*mraːŋʔ
蜢	*mraːŋʔ
皿	*maŋʔ
孟	*mraːŋs

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měng (meng³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁵
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): máng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ma³ / meng³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): meh / muih / meeh / neh / nih / mih / mé / béng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: měng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: měng
  - Wade–Giles: mêng³
  - Yale: měng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
  - Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: maang⁵
  - Yale: máahng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: mang⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: máng
  - Hakka Romanization System: mang^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mang³
  - Sinological IPA: /maŋ³¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mâ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma³³²/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: meng³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛŋ³³²/

Note:

ma3 - vernacular;
meng3 - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: meh
  - Tâi-lô: meh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: meq
  - Sinological IPA (Singapore): /meʔ³²/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /mẽʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: muih
  - Tâi-lô: muih
  - Phofsit Daibuun: muiq
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /muĩʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: meeh
  - Tâi-lô: meeh
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃ʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Yilan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: neh
  - Tâi-lô: neh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: neq
  - Sinological IPA (Yilan): /nẽʔ²/
- (Hokkien: Lukang, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nih
  - Tâi-lô: nih
  - Phofsit Daibuun: niq
  - Sinological IPA (Lukang): /nĩʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mih
  - Tâi-lô: mih
  - Phofsit Daibuun: miq
  - Sinological IPA (Singapore): /miʔ³²/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mĩʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mé
  - Tâi-lô: mé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mea
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /mẽ⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽ⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /mẽ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: béng
  - Tâi-lô: bíng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: beang
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /biɪŋ⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ⁴¹/

Note:

meh/muih/meeh/neh/nih/mih/mé - vernacular;
béng - literary.

Middle Chinese: maengX

Rime
Character	蜢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫幸切
Baxter	maengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋ^X/
Li Rong	/mɐŋ^X/
Wang Li	/mɐŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mɐŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	měng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜢
Reading #	1/1
No.	9150
Phonetic component	皿
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋʔ/
Notes	杏由幸校改

Definitions

蜢

only used in 蚱蜢 (zhàměng), 草蜢 (cǎoměng) etc.

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蜢”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.