Hanja Analyzer
蚋

蚋 — ye

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
모기 예
Romanization
ye
English
gnat, mosquito
Mandarin
ruì
Japanese on'yomi
ゼイ
Japanese kun'yomi
ぶゆ ぶよ ぶと か
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
10
Radical
虫 (142, 4 residual)
Phonetic component
內
Unicode
U+868B

Parts that make up 蚋

  • 虫 벌레 충, 벌레 훼 고개 든 뱀벌레와 뱀·조개 따위 작은 생물
  • 内 받아들일 납, 안 내 안으로 들어가는 모양內 와 같은 글자. ‘내·납’ 계열의 소리

How 蚋 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 蚋 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 虫, 內.

Japanese words with 蚋

  • 蚋ぶゆ black fly (any insect of family Simuliidae); gnat

Characters sharing the phonetic 內

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “예”

Other hanja with radical 虫

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