蝕

See also: 蚀 and 触

蝕	U+8755, 蝕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8755

← 蝔
[U+8754]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蝖 →
[U+8756]

Translingual

Han character

蝕 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人戈中一戈 (OILMI), four-corner 8573₆, composition ⿰飠虫)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1089, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33264
Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2864, character 8
Unihan data for U+8755

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蝕
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
飤	*ljɯɡs
食	lɯɡs, ɦljɯɡ
蝕	*ɦljɯɡ
飾	*hljɯɡ
飭	*l̥ʰɯɡ

Etymology 1

trad.		蝕
simp.		蚀

Same word as 食 (OC *lɯɡs, *ɦljɯɡ, “to eat”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shí (shi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄕˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sṳ̍t / sa̍t

(Meixian, Guangdong): sed⁶ / sad⁶
Northern Min (KCR): sĭ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): si̍h / si̍t / se̍k / sit

(Teochew, Peng'im): sih⁸ / ziah⁸
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸zeq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shí
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shíh
  - Wade–Giles: shih²
  - Yale: shŕ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr
  - Palladius: ши (ši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sik⁶
  - Yale: sihk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̍t / sa̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: siid / sad
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sid⁶ / sad⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /sɨt̚⁵/, /sat̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: sed⁶ / sad⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /sət̚⁵/, /sat̚⁵/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /si²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍h
  - Tâi-lô: si̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sih
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siʔ¹²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siʔ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍t
  - Tâi-lô: si̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sit
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sit̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sit̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sit̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍k
  - Tâi-lô: si̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sek
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sit
  - Tâi-lô: sit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sid
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sit̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sit̚³²/

Note:

si̍h - vernacular (“to wane”);
si̍t - vernacular;
se̍k - literary;
sit - “eclipse” (also written as 熄).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: sih⁸ / ziah⁸
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: si̍h / tsia̍h
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /siʔ⁴/, /t͡siaʔ⁴/

Note: ziah8 - alternative pronunciation.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸zeq
  - MiniDict: zeh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵zeq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zəʔ¹²/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 蝕
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʂʐ̩³⁵/
	Harbin	/ʂʐ̩²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʂʐ̩⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʂʐ̩⁴²/
	Qingdao	/ʃz̩⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʂʐ̩⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ʂʐ̩²⁴/
	Xining	/ʂʐ̩²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʂʐ̩¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ʂʐ̩⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/sz̩²¹³/
	Chengdu	/sz̩³¹/ /se³¹/
	Guiyang	/sz̩²¹/
	Kunming	/ʂʐ̩³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʂʐ̩ʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ʂəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/səʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/ʂʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/səʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/zəʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/zəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/zəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/zei²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕi²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/ɕi⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/sɨʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/sat̚⁵/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/ʃït̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sek̚²/
	Nanning	/sek̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/sek̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/sik̚⁵/ /sit̚⁵/ 腐～ /siʔ⁵/ 消～
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/sɛiʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/si²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/siʔ⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/t͡sia³³/ 日～ /ti³³/ 消～

Middle Chinese: zyik

Rime
Character	蝕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	乗力切
Baxter	zyik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑik̚/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiək̚/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭək̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-lək/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɦljɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蝕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shí
Middle Chinese	‹ zyik ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-lək/
English	(eat:) eclipse
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	蝕
Reading #	1/1
No.	11478
Phonetic component	食
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɦljɯɡ/

Definitions

蝕

to corrode; to erode
(astronomy) to eclipse
(Hokkien) to wane; to fade away; to regress; to dissipate

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad.		蝕
simp.		蚀
alternative forms		𧵳／䞌 Cantonese

From 折.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): sit⁶
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): sad⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): si̍h

(Teochew, Peng'im): sih⁸
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸zeq

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sit⁶
  - Yale: siht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xid⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːt̚²/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: sad⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /sat̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍h
  - Tâi-lô: si̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sih
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siʔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siʔ¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siʔ⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sih⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: si̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siʔ⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸zeq
  - MiniDict: zeh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵zeq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zəʔ¹²/

Definitions

蝕

(Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min, Wu) to lose money
佢五年前做生意蝕咗廿幾萬。 [Cantonese, trad.]
佢五年前做生意蚀咗廿几万。 [Cantonese, simp.]
keoi⁵ ng⁵ nin⁴ cin⁴ zou⁶ saang¹ ji³ sit⁶ zo² jaa⁶ gei² maan⁶. [Jyutping]
He lost some twenty-odd thousand doing business five years ago.
(Cantonese) to have struck a bad bargain; to be at a disadvantage; to lose out
(Cantonese) to wear due to constant friction
鞋底已經蝕晒。 [Cantonese, trad.]
鞋底已经蚀晒。 [Cantonese, simp.]
haai⁴ dai² ji⁵ ging¹ sit⁶ saai³. [Jyutping]
The sole of the shoe has already worn out.

Compounds

References

“蝕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

蝕

Kanji

蝕

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Usage notes

In modern Japanese, 蝕 is mostly replaced by 食, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Japanese terms with 蝕 replaced by daiyōji 食

Compounds

皆(かい)既(き)蝕(しょく) (kaikishoku, “total eclipse”)
月(げっ)蝕(しょく) (gesshoku, “lunar eclipse”)
蝕(しょく)甚(じん) (shokujin, “maximum eclipse”)
侵(しん)蝕(しょく) (shinshoku, “erosion, corrosion”)
浸(しん)蝕(しょく) (shinshoku, “erosion, corrosion (by water)”)
日(にっ)蝕(しょく) (nisshoku, “solar eclipse”)
腐(ふ)蝕(しょく) (fushoku, “corrosion”)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蝕
しょく Hyōgai
kan'on

Noun

蝕(しょく) • (shoku)

eclipse; erosion, corrosion

Korean

Hanja

蝕 • (sik) (hangeul 식, revised sik, McCune–Reischauer sik, Yale sik)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝕: Hán Nôm readings: thực

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