蜀 (Kangxi radical 142,虫+7, 13 strokes,cangjie input田中心中戈 (WLPLI),four-corner6012₇,composition⿱罒𠣜 or⿹𦉶虫)

• 㒔,噣,擉,濁(浊),獨(独),斶,㯮,燭(烛),㻿,臅,襡,蠋,觸(触),躅,鐲(镯),䪅,韣(𱂋),𩑂,䮷,髑,蠲,𩼟
• 䟉,劅,斀,斣,歜,䫳,鸀(𱊬),薥,屬(属)

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 1084, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33086
• Dae Jaweon: page 1551, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2921, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8700

Historical forms of the character蜀
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Shuowen Jiezi interprets this as a pictograph of a silkworm: with目 (mù, “eye”) depicting its head above its wriggling body; see蠶叢／蚕丛 (“silkworm-thicket”), legendary inventor of silk and sericulture and ancestor of the first dynasty of the Shu kings.

蜀

1. (～國) the name of a state inancientChina

   • 十有一月，公會楚公子嬰齊于蜀。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     十有一月，公会楚公子婴齐于蜀。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:Commentary of Zuo,c. 4^th centuryBCE

     Shíyǒuyī yuè, gōng huì chǔ gōngzǐ yīngqí yúshǔ.[Pinyin]

     In the eleventh month, the Duke met the princeling Yingqi of Chu inShu.

2. another name forShu Han, one ofThree Kingdoms

   • 安西將軍鄧艾大破蜀大將姜維於上邽。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     安西将军邓艾大破蜀大将姜维于上邽。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:Chen Shou,Records of the Three Kingdoms, circa 3^rd centuryCE

     Ānxī jiāngjūn dèng ài dà pòshǔ dà jiāng jiāng wéi yú shàngguī.[Pinyin]

     (Wei) General-who-Calms-the-WestDeng Ai soundly defeatedShu Grand GeneralJiang Wei at Shanggui

3. Sichuan (aprovince ofChina)
4. (historical dictionaries only) silkworm onhollyhock
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese)alternative form of蠋(zhú,“caterpillar”)

Compare獨／独 (dú, “single, alone”). According toFangyan, it is used in the ancient Chu language (楚語):

一，蜀也。南楚謂之蜀。[Classical Chinese,trad.]

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一，蜀也。南楚谓之蜀。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

From:Yang Xiong,Fangyan,c. 1^st centuryBCE

Yī,shǔ yě. Nánchǔ wèi zhīshǔ.[Pinyin]

一 is蜀. People from Southern Chu call it蜀.

蜀

1. (Min)alternative form of一(“one”)

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会[Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “蜀”, in莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page508.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆[Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蜀”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page213.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. greencaterpillar
2. Sichuan

• Go-on:ぞく(zoku)
• Kan-on:しょく(shoku)
• Kun:いもむし(imomushi,蜀)

FromMiddle Chinese蜀 (MC dzyowk).

• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞kɯ̟]

蜀(しょく)• (Shoku) ^{←しよく(Syoku)?}

1. Shu (a formerstate and former dynasty in ancient China)

蜀 (eumhun나라이름촉(nara ireum chok))

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蜀:Hán Nôm readings:xọc,thục

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