蟹

Information about character(s)

Radical: 虫
Radical Strokes: 6
Additional Strokes: 13
Total Strokes: 19
Variants: 蠏

Pronunciation

Pinyin: xiè
Cantonese: haai5
JapaneseKun: KANI
JapaneseOn: KAI
Korean: HAY

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: crab, brachyura

CE-Dict: crab

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.a crab

21 Century bidirectional science and technology dictionary: crab - 無脊椎

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: crab
【醫】 Cr; crab

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: crab

湘雅醫學專業詞典: pea crab

康熙字典文字版 【申集中】【虫字部】蟹
【唐韻】【正韻】胡買切【集韻】【韻會】下買切，𠀤音獬。蟲名。【周禮·冬官考工記·仄行註】仄行，蟹屬。【疏】今人謂之旁蠏，以其側行故也。【爾雅翼】蟹八跪而二螯，八足折而容俯，故謂之跪，兩螯倨而容仰，故謂之敖，字从解者，以隨潮解甲也。殻上多作十二點深胭脂色，如鯉之三十六鱗。其腹中虛實亦應月。【廣韻】水蟲。仙方云：投于漆中化爲水，服之長生，以黑犬血灌之，三日燒之，諸䑕畢至。【山海經】姑射國在海中，屬列姑射，西南山環之，大蟹在海中。【註】蓋千里之蟹也。餘互詳蝤蟧螖等字註。　【集韻】通作䲒。

CF-Dict: crabe

Han-De-Dict: Krabbe (u.E.) (S)/Krebs (u.E.) (S)