蚓
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Translingual
    
    Han character
    
蚓 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓中 (LINL), four-corner 52100, composition ⿰虫引)
References
    
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 35
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32866
- Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 29
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2841, character 2
- Unihan data for U+8693
Chinese
    
| simp. and trad. | 蚓 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd round simp. | 引 | |
| alternative forms | 螾 | |
Glyph origin
    
Characters in the same phonetic series (引) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *linʔ) : semantic 虫 (“insect; worm”) + phonetic 引 (OC *linʔ, *lins).
Etymology
    
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *zril (“worm”); cognate with Tibetan སྲིལ (sril, “silkworm”), Japhug qandʐe (“earthworm”) (STEDT; Paul, 1972; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019).
Pronunciation
    
Synonyms
    
	Dialectal synonyms of 蚯蚓 (“earthworm”) [map]
Compounds
    
- 以蚓投魚/以蚓投鱼
- 春蚓秋蛇
- 蚓廉
- 蚯蚓 (qiūyǐn)
- 行行蛇蚓
References
    
- “蚓”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
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