"螟蛉" meaning in Chinese

See 螟蛉 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /miŋ³⁵ liŋ³⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /mɪŋ²¹ lɪŋ²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /biɪŋ¹³⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪŋ²⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /biɪŋ²³⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /miŋ³⁵ liŋ³⁵/, /mɪŋ²¹ lɪŋ²¹/, /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/, /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/, /biɪŋ¹³⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/, /biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪŋ²⁴/, /biɪŋ²³⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/ Chinese transliterations: mínglíng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄧㄥˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ming⁴ ling⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], bêng-lêng, mínglíng [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄧㄥˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], mínglíng [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], ming²-ling² [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], míng-líng [Mandarin, Yale, standard], mingling [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], минлин [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], minlin [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], mìhng lìhng [Cantonese, Yale], ming⁴ ling⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], ming⁴ ling⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], bêng-lêng [Hokkien, POJ], bîng-lîng [Hokkien, Tai-lo], bengleeng [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], meng leng [Middle-Chinese], /*meːŋ reːŋ/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Etymology: Reduplicated from *mliŋ according to Li Fang-Kuei apud Schuessler (2007). While Pittayaporn (2009) proposes that Proto-Tai *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”) is loaned from either early or late Middle Chinese, Schuessler (2007) proposes the reverse loan-direction: i.e. from Tai into Chinese (see also Li (1976)). Etymology templates: {{zh-ref|Schuessler (2007)}} Schuessler (2007), {{zh-ref|Pittayaporn (2009)}} Pittayaporn (2009), {{cog|tai-pro|*m.leːŋᴬ||insect}} Proto-Tai *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”), {{zh-ref|Schuessler (2007)}} Schuessler (2007), {{der|zh|tai}} Tai, {{zh-ref|Li (1976)}} Li (1976) Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 螟蛉
  1. green rice caterpillar (Naranga aenescens); (in general) caterpillar of many Lepidoptera species, such as the corn earworm or the small white butterfly (which destroy rice and other plants)
    Sense id: en-螟蛉-zh-noun-cSCwg5Zc Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 35 36 19 9
  2. (literary, figurative) Short for 螟蛉子 (mínglíngzǐ, “adopted son”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, figuratively, literary Alternative form of: 螟蛉子 (extra: mínglíngzǐ, “adopted son”)
    Sense id: en-螟蛉-zh-noun-0FRxG1eo Categories (other): Chinese disyllabic morphemes, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese disyllabic morphemes: 41 59 Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 35 36 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 46 14 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 稻螟蛉, 螟蛉之子 (mínglíngzhīzǐ), 螟蛉仔囝, 螟蛉子 (mínglíngzǐ)

Alternative forms

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            "t4": ""
          },
          "expansion": "→ Korean: 명령(螟蛉) (myeongnyeong)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "螟蛉",
            "2": "めいれい",
            "3": "명령",
            "4": "",
            "5": "",
            "6": "",
            "h": "螟蛉",
            "j2": "",
            "j2t": "",
            "j3": "",
            "j3t": "",
            "j4": "",
            "j4t": "",
            "jdesc": "",
            "jje2": "",
            "jje2t": "",
            "jje3": "",
            "jje3t": "",
            "jje4": "",
            "jje4t": "",
            "jjedesc": "",
            "jjet": "",
            "jt": "",
            "k2": "",
            "k2t": "",
            "k3": "",
            "k3t": "",
            "k4": "",
            "k4t": "",
            "kdesc": "",
            "kt": "",
            "o": "螟蛉",
            "o2": "",
            "o2t": "",
            "o3": "",
            "o3t": "",
            "o4": "",
            "o4t": "",
            "odesc": "",
            "ot": "",
            "s": "螟蛉",
            "v": "螟蛉",
            "v2": "",
            "v2t": "",
            "v3": "",
            "v3t": "",
            "v4": "",
            "v4t": "",
            "vdesc": "",
            "vt": ""
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (螟蛉):\n* → Japanese: 螟蛉(めいれい) (meirei)\n* → Korean: 명령(螟蛉) (myeongnyeong)",
          "name": "CJKV/code"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "",
            "2": "めいれい",
            "3": "명령"
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (螟蛉):\n* → Japanese: 螟蛉(めいれい) (meirei)\n* → Korean: 명령(螟蛉) (myeongnyeong)",
          "name": "CJKV"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sino-Xenic (螟蛉):\n* → Japanese: 螟蛉(めいれい) (meirei)\n* → Korean: 명령(螟蛉) (myeongnyeong)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tai-pro",
            "2": "*m.leːŋᴬ",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "insect",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→? Proto-Tai: *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→? Proto-Tai: *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Schuessler (2007)"
      },
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      "name": "zh-ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Pittayaporn (2009)"
      },
      "expansion": "Pittayaporn (2009)",
      "name": "zh-ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tai-pro",
        "2": "*m.leːŋᴬ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "insect"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Tai *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Schuessler (2007)"
      },
      "expansion": "Schuessler (2007)",
      "name": "zh-ref"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "tai"
      },
      "expansion": "Tai",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Li (1976)"
      },
      "expansion": "Li (1976)",
      "name": "zh-ref"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Reduplicated from *mliŋ according to Li Fang-Kuei apud Schuessler (2007).\nWhile Pittayaporn (2009) proposes that Proto-Tai *m.leːŋᴬ (“insect”) is loaned from either early or late Middle Chinese, Schuessler (2007) proposes the reverse loan-direction: i.e. from Tai into Chinese (see also Li (1976)).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "螟蛉",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The mulberry insect has young ones,\nAnd the sphex carries them away.\nTeach and train your sons,\nAnd they will become good as you are.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Pre-Classical Chinese",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "Mínglíng yǒu zǐ, guǒluǒ fù zhī. Jiàohuì ěr zǐ, shìgǔ sì zhī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "螟蛉有子,蜾蠃負之。教誨爾子,式穀似之。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The mulberry insect has young ones,\nAnd the sphex carries them away.\nTeach and train your sons,\nAnd they will become good as you are.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Pre-Classical Chinese",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "Mínglíng yǒu zǐ, guǒluǒ fù zhī. Jiàohuì ěr zǐ, shìgǔ sì zhī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "螟蛉有子,蜾蠃负之。教诲尔子,式谷似之。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The dying moth larva encountered the wasp. The wasp snatched it away saying, “Be like me, be like me.”\nAfter a while, they were alike. How quickly it is, that the seventy disciples became like Confucius!",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Yang Xiong, Fa Yan (Exemplary Sayings), 9 CE",
          "roman": "Mínglíng zhī zǐ yì, ér féng guǒluǒ. Zhù zhī yuē: “Lèi wǒ, lèi wǒ.” Jiǔ zé xiào zhī yǐ! Sù zāi, qīshí zǐ zhī xiào Zhòngní yě.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "螟蛉之子殪,而逢蜾蠃。祝之曰:「類我,類我。」久則肖之矣!速哉,七十子之肖仲尼也。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The dying moth larva encountered the wasp. The wasp snatched it away saying, “Be like me, be like me.”\nAfter a while, they were alike. How quickly it is, that the seventy disciples became like Confucius!",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Classical Chinese",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Yang Xiong, Fa Yan (Exemplary Sayings), 9 CE",
          "roman": "Mínglíng zhī zǐ yì, ér féng guǒluǒ. Zhù zhī yuē: “Lèi wǒ, lèi wǒ.” Jiǔ zé xiào zhī yǐ! Sù zāi, qīshí zǐ zhī xiào Zhòngní yě.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "螟蛉之子殪,而逢蜾蠃。祝之曰:「类我,类我。」久则肖之矣!速哉,七十子之肖仲尼也。",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "green rice caterpillar (Naranga aenescens); (in general) caterpillar of many Lepidoptera species, such as the corn earworm or the small white butterfly (which destroy rice and other plants)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "caterpillar",
          "caterpillar"
        ],
        [
          "Lepidoptera",
          "Lepidoptera#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ],
        [
          "corn earworm",
          "corn earworm"
        ],
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ],
        [
          "rice",
          "rice"
        ],
        [
          "plant",
          "plant"
        ]
      ]
    },
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          "extra": "mínglíngzǐ, “adopted son”",
          "word": "螟蛉子"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Chinese literary terms",
        "Chinese short forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Short for 螟蛉子 (mínglíngzǐ, “adopted son”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "螟蛉子",
          "螟蛉子#Chinese"
        ],
        [
          "adopted",
          "adopted"
        ],
        [
          "son",
          "son"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary, figurative) Short for 螟蛉子 (mínglíngzǐ, “adopted son”)."
      ],
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        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mínglíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄧㄥˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ling⁴"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "bêng-lêng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mínglíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄧㄥˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mínglíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming²-ling²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míng-líng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mingling"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "минлин"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "minlin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ liŋ³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mìhng lìhng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ling⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ling⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪŋ²¹ lɪŋ²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bêng-lêng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bîng-lîng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bengleeng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "meng leng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*meːŋ reːŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ liŋ³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪŋ²¹ lɪŋ²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ liɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*meːŋ reːŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Li Fang-Kuei"
  ],
  "word": "螟蛉"
}

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