䗽

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

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

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

Austroasiatic (Norman & Mei, 1976; Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruj ~ *ruuj ~ *ruəj ~ *ruhaj (“"fly (insect)"”) and its descendants.

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

䗽

1. (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.

2. rice weevil