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See also: 蠧 and 螙

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

  1. moth
  2. insects which eat into cloth
  • 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
simp. and trad.
 蠹
2nd round simp. 𫊥
alternative forms 蠧
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”)

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tuH ›
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/

蠹

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

蠹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

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