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U+87EA

Seal script

Radical:+ 12 strokes = 18 strokes total.
References:Guangyun: p.373#49 Kangxi: p.1097#25 Cihai: p.1198r5c03 GSR: 533.e Hanyu: v4,p2890#01
Composition:Left: , right: .
Mandarin:huì ㄏㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese:wai6
Tang reconstruction:huek
Shuowen:虫部》蟪:蟪蛄,蟬也。从虫惠聲。
Guangyun:廣韻·去聲··》蟪:蟪蛄。
Kangxi:康熙字典·虫部·十二》蟪:《唐韻》胡桂切,音惠。蟪蛄。詳蛄字註。
Fanqie:胡桂 (《廣韻·去聲··》)
Unihan definition:a kind of cicada

Example usage

莊子·逍遙遊》:朝菌不知晦朔,蛄不知春秋,此小年也。
The mushroom of a morning does not know (what takes place between) the beginning and end of a month; the short-lived cicada does not know (what takes place between) the spring and autumn. These are instances of a short term of life.
說苑·政理》:孔子謂弟子曰:「違山十里,蛄之聲猶尚存耳,政事無如膺之矣。」
孔子家語》:孔子謂宰予曰:「違山十里,蛄之聲,猶在於耳,故政事莫如應之。」
淮南子·道應訓》:故莊子曰:「小年不及大年,小知不及大知,朝菌不知晦朔,蛄不知春秋。」
楚辭·招隱士》:歲暮兮不自聊,蛄鳴兮啾啾。
說文解字·虫部》:蛄,蟬也。
方言·第十一》:蛥蚗,齊謂之螇螰,楚謂之蛄,或謂之蛉蛄,秦謂之蛥蚗。
抱朴子·論仙》:而吾子乃欲延蛄之命,令有歷紀之壽,養朝菌之榮,使累晦朔之積,不亦謬乎?
藝文類聚·》:《梁王僧孺為韋雍州致仕表》曰:一旦攀附,遂無涯限,排雲矯漢,飛□待翼,陸離蟬組,照灼潘旗,受脤推轂,執珪奉酎,變狹室於高門,改小冠於侯服,況復還周紐其六印,歸齊列其五鼎,常懼輪輕載積,基薄墉高,器覆危傾,人指鬼瞰,老與年并,疾隨衰及,塗遙齒截,漏迫鍾鳴,高舂之景一斜,不周之風忽至,菌夕陰,倏駛無幾,堇蕣朝采,飄零已及,仰朱闕而掩涕,向濛谷而自悲,豈復式瞻拱默,仰接鍾鼓,儻帷蓋未親,東岳稍駐,擊壤鼓腹,其賜猶多。
通典·建華冠》:惠者,也。
廣韻·》:蟧:小蟬一曰虭蟧蛄也。
太平御覽·法冠》:如淳曰:,蟬也,冠細如蟬翅,今御史冠也。
太平廣記·漢武帝》:下降於蛄之窟。
全唐詩》:蛄蒙恩,深愧短促。
康熙字典·十二》::《唐韻》胡桂切,音惠。

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