蚊

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
From with a nominal suffix *-n. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) mosquito

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 3
Cognate to 🇨🇬 (and other dialects), as in.

suggests that it may come from the same etymon that gives as in, which he relates to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Kanji

 * 1) mosquito

Etymology 1
From. Possibly related to or, although the ultimate derivation remains unknown.

Noun

 * 1) mosquito

Etymology 2
Cognate with. Likely pronounced long due to being a single mora. Elongation of single mora words is still seen in the Ōsaka dialect with words like teː "hand" from te. The 794 quotation is the oldest extant example of a long vowel in Japanese.

Noun

 * 1) mosquito