狐

Translingual

Han character

狐 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+5 in Chinese, 犬+6 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 大竹竹女人 (KHHVO), four-corner 4223₀, composition ⿰犭瓜)

Derived characters

• 𦱄, 𠍐, 𦻨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 708, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20333
• Dae Jaweon: page 1121, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1340, character 14
• Unihan data for U+72D0

Chinese

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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷaː) : semantic 犭 (“dog”) + phonetic 瓜 (OC *kʷraː).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gwa (“fox”). Cognate with Tibetan ཝ (wa, “fox”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

狐

1. fox
2. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

References

• “狐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu); ご (go)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: きつね (kitsune, 狐)

Compounds

Etymology

 狐 on Japanese Wikipedia

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

There are various theories. The most likely is based on the root form kitsu, which may have originally been onomatopoeic for the sound of a fox's cry. The final ne syllable appeared for certain by the Heian period, but its meaning remains unclear.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きつね (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

• Audio

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Noun

狐(きつね) or 狐(キツネ) • (kitsune) 

1. a fox
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki:

     狐狼 上扈反, 倭言岐都禰, 又狐諼獸鬼所乘有三徳, 狐疑不定也, 狼音良, 訓, 似犬也, 倭言大神也

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1994 July 16, Isao Takahata, 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ [Heisei Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko], spoken by Oroku (Nijiko Kiyokawa), Toho:

     程(てい)度(ど)の低(ひく)いものは「擬(ぎ)態(たい)」と呼(よ)ばれ、カメレオンなんぞにもできるが、「化(ば)け学(がく)」はオラたち以(い)外(がい)では、キツネと一(いち)部(ぶ)のネコしか身(み)につけておらん‼

     Teido no hikui mono wa “gitai” to yobare, kamereon nanzo ni mo dekiru ga,“bakegaku” wa ora-tachi igai de wa, kitsune to ichibu no neko shika mi ni tsuketeoran‼

     Those lesser kinds like chameleons can make use of “mimicry”, but beside us, only foxes and a few cats can master “metamorphism”!!

Usage notes

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as キツネ.

Synonyms

• フォックス (fokkusu, less common)

Derived terms

References

• Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, →ISBN.

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 狐 (MC hu).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

狐

Wikisource

狐 (eumhun 여우 호 (yeou ho))

1. Hanja form^? of 호 (“fox”).

Compounds

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Okinawan

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: ちちに (chichini, 狐)^{←ちつぃに (titwini, 狐, historical)}

Etymology

/*kitune/ → /t͡ɕit͡sini/ → /t͡ɕit͡ɕini/

Cognate with Japanese 狐 (kitsune).

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as ちつィに. The phonemes /t͡si/ and /t͡ɕi/ converged in Okinawan during the 20th century.

Noun

狐(ちちに) (chichini) ^{←ちつィに (titwini)?}

1. fox

References

Further reading

• “ちちに【狐】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

Vietnamese

Han character

狐: Hán Nôm readings: hồ

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