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䗽 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女土中一戈 (VGLMI), composition ⿱維虫)

a small gadfly that suck blood of horse or cow, weevil found in rice
etc.

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1100, character 36
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2901, character 8
Unihan data for U+45FD

trad.	䗽
simp.	𰳚

Austroasiatic (Norman & Mei, 1976; Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Austroasiatic *roaj (“"fly (insect)"”) and its descendants.

Foreign (pre-)initial *r- was lost before Old Chinese *w-.

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wèi (wei⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wèi
  - Wade–Giles: wei⁴
  - Yale: wèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
  - Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵¹/

Middle Chinese: ywijH

䗽

(obsolete) small gadfly
- 夫邊境者，國之尾也，譬之如牛馬，處暑之既至，䖟䗽之既多，而不能掉其尾，臣亦懼之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  夫边境者，国之尾也，譬之如牛马，处暑之既至，䖟𰳚之既多，而不能掉其尾，臣亦惧之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE
  Fú biānjìng zhě, guó zhī wěi yě, pì zhī rú niúmǎ, chùshǔ zhī jì zhì, mǎngwèi zhī jì duō, ér bùnéng diào qí wěi, chén yì jù zhī. [Pinyin]
  The borders and frontiers are like states' tails. Let's compare them to oxen and horses: when the End of Heat term will have come, the large and small gadflies will have swarmed, and [oxen and horses] will not be able to wag their tails. I your subject fear that.
rice weevil