蟎

See also: 螨

蟎 U+87CE, 蟎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87CE ← 蟍 [U+87CD] CJK Unified Ideographs 蟏 → [U+87CF]

Translingual

Han character

蟎 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿中月 (LITLB), composition ⿰虫㒼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1096, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33570
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2883, character 6
• Unihan data for U+87CE

Chinese

trad.		蟎
simp.		螨

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǎn, mán (man³, man²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˇ, ㄇㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǎn
    • Wade–Giles: man³
    • Yale: mǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maan
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mán
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mán
    • Wade–Giles: man²
    • Yale: mán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: man
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mun⁵
    • Yale: múhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mun⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn¹³/

Definitions

蟎

1. mite

   虎蠕形蟎／虎蠕形螨  ―  hǔrúxíngmǎn  ―  Demodex tigris

Compounds

• 乾酪蟎／干酪螨
• 塵蟎／尘螨 (chénmǎn)
• 恙蟎／恙螨
• 擬葉蟎／拟叶螨
• 毛囊蟎／毛囊螨
• 疥蟎／疥螨
• 粉蟎／粉螨
• 葉蟎／叶螨
• 蟎蟲／螨虫 (mǎnchóng)
• 銹蟎／锈螨

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C12447
• Master Ideographs Seeker for CNS 11643 Chinese Standard Interchange Code (CNS11643 中文標準交換碼全字庫)

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).

Kanji

蟎

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: まん (man)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: だに (dani, 蟎)

Noun

蟎(だに) or 蟎(ダニ) • (dani) 

1. Rare spelling of 壁蝨 (“mite; tick”).