蠹

See also: 蠧 and 螙

蠹	U+8839, 蠹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8839

← 蠸
[U+8838]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蠺 →
[U+883A]

Translingual

Han character

蠹 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 十月一口戈 (JBMRI), four-corner 4013₆, composition ⿳⿱𰀉冖石䖵)

moth
insects which eat into cloth

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 5

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33896

Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 5

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2908, character 9

Unihan data for U+8839

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠹
2nd round simp.		𫊥
alternative forms		蠧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠹
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
柘	*tjaɡs
妬	*taːɡs
蠹	*taːɡs
沰	taːɡ, tʰaːɡ
拓	tʰaːɡ, tjaɡ
橐	*tʰaːɡ
袥	*tʰaːɡ
驝	tʰaːɡ, raːɡ
斫	*tjaɡ
磭	ŋrɯnʔ, ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔	*rtaːɡ
跖	*tjaɡ
石	*djaɡ
碩	*djaɡ
祏	*djaɡ
鉐	*djaɡ
鼫	*djaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *taːɡs) : phonetic 橐 (OC *tʰaːɡ) + semantic 䖵 (“insect”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dù (du⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dou³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dù
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dù
  - Wade–Giles: tu⁴
  - Yale: dù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duh
  - Palladius: ду (du)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dou³
  - Yale: dou
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dou³
  - Guangdong Romanization: dou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³³/

Middle Chinese: tuH

Rime
Character	蠹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	當故切
Baxter	tuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/tuo^H/
Shao Rongfen	/to^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɔ^H/
Li Rong	/to^H/
Wang Li	/tu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤak-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*taːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蠹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dù
Middle Chinese	‹ tu^H ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁak-s/
English	grubs in wood, vermin
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	蠹
Reading #	1/1
No.	11456
Phonetic component	石
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	妒
Old Chinese	/*taːɡs/

Definitions

蠹

insect that eats through paper, clothes, wood, etc.
1. (specifically) silverfish
(figuratively) harmful person; vermin
to erode; to eat away at
moth-eaten; worm-eaten

Synonyms

(silverfish):

壁魚／壁鱼 (bìyú)
書蛀蟲／书蛀虫 (shūzhùchóng)
書蟲／书虫 (shūchóng)
白魚／白鱼 (báiyú)
紙魚／纸鱼 (zhǐyú)
蛀 (zhù) (literary, or in compounds)
蛀書蟲／蛀书虫
蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
衣蟲／衣虫 (yīchóng)
衣魚／衣鱼 (yīyú)

Compounds

國蠹／国蠹
巨蠹
戶樞不蠹／户枢不蠹 (hùshūbùdù)
書蠹／书蠹
朽蠹
桂蠹
民蠹
狡蠹
祛蠹除奸
祿蠹／禄蠹 (lùdù)
積蠹／积蠹
蠹國／蠹国
蠹國害民／蠹国害民
蠹國殃民／蠹国殃民
蠹害
蠹居棋處／蠹居棋处
蠹政
蠹書蟲／蠹书虫
蠹簡／蠹简
蠹蟲／蠹虫 (dùchóng)
蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
衙蠹
貪官蠹役／贪官蠹役
鯗蠹／鲞蠹
齒蠹／齿蠹 (chǐdù)
齲蠹／龋蠹 (qǔdù)

Japanese

Kanji

蠹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): と (to); つ (tsu)

Kun: きくいむし (kikuimushi); しみ (shimi)

Korean

Hanja

蠹 • (du) (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune–Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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