蜘蛛

Etymology
Reduplication in Old Chinese.

Noun

 * 1) spider

Etymology 1
From. Found in the , completed in 759.

Ultimate derivation. Various theories exist, including:


 * from, from the way that spiders hide in their webs
 * from, from the way that spiders wrap up caught insects
 * from, from the way that spider webs may look vaguely like clouds
 * from reconstructed ; possibly cognate with Kagoshima こっ koʔ (< kobu) "spider"; Tanegashima こぶ kobu "large spider"; Amami (Setouchi) こぶ kobu; Okinawan くーばー kuuba; Yonaguni くぶ kubu "spider", etc. If true, then would be unrelated to, whose proto-form was likely *kumo, as suggested by Okinawan くむ kumu, Yonaguni んむ nmu, Kunigami and Yoron ふむ fumu.

May ultimately be cognate with 🇨🇬. The kanji are an.

Noun

 * 1) spider

Derived terms

 * : huntsman spider
 * : sea spider
 * : spider crab
 * : spider monkey
 * : spiderweb
 * : baby spider
 * : spiderweb
 * : brittlestar
 * : the arachnoid
 * : wolf spider
 * ; tsuchigumo
 * : poisonous spider; (obsolete) wolf spider
 * : tarantula
 * : tarantula
 * : jumping spider
 * : water spider
 * : harvestman
 * : daddy longlegs spider
 * : spiderweb
 * : brittlestar
 * : the arachnoid
 * : wolf spider
 * ; tsuchigumo
 * : poisonous spider; (obsolete) wolf spider
 * : tarantula
 * : tarantula
 * : jumping spider
 * : water spider
 * : harvestman
 * : daddy longlegs spider
 * ; tsuchigumo
 * : poisonous spider; (obsolete) wolf spider
 * : tarantula
 * : tarantula
 * : jumping spider
 * : water spider
 * : harvestman
 * : daddy longlegs spider
 * : tarantula
 * : jumping spider
 * : water spider
 * : harvestman
 * : daddy longlegs spider
 * : water spider
 * : harvestman
 * : daddy longlegs spider
 * : daddy longlegs spider

Noun

 * 1)  spider

Noun

 * 1)  spider
 * 2)  large spider

Etymology 4
From. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading tî-tû, 🇨🇬 tĭ-tṳ̆, 🇨🇬 ti-tu. Probably borrowed at a different time or from a different dialect than chichu below.

Noun

 * 1) spider

Derived terms

 * : spiderweb

Etymology 5
From. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading tî-tû, 🇨🇬 tĭ-tṳ̆, 🇨🇬 ti-tu. Probably borrowed at a different time or from a different dialect than chichū above.

Noun

 * 1) spider

Etymology 6
From. This reading is the kan'yōyomi, and is thus a later phonetic shift after borrowing, read as 知朱.

Noun

 * 1) spider

Derived terms

 * : the arachnoid

Noun

 * 1) spider

Noun

 * 1) spider

Noun

 * 1) spider