螉

螉 U+8789, 螉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8789 ← 螈 [U+8788] CJK Unified Ideographs 螊 → [U+878A]

螉 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中戈金戈一 (LICIM), four-corner 5812₇, composition ⿰虫翁)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1092, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33374
• Dae Jaweon: page 1557, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2880, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8789

trad.		螉
simp. #		螉

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qloːŋ) : semantic 虫 (“worm”) + phonetic 翁 (OC *qloːŋ).

Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔuŋ ~ *ʔuəŋ ~ *huŋ ~ *huəŋ (“wasp; hornet”) (whence Proto-Vietic *ʔɔːŋ (“honey bee”) > Vietnamese ong (“bee”).

螉

1. (obsolete) a parasitic insect on the skins of cattle and horses; gadfly

• “螉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): お (o)、おう (ō)

螉 (eumhun 나나니벌 옹 (nananibeol ong))

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• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 螉

螉: Hán Việt readings: ông
螉: Nôm readings: ong, ông

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