獵

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See also: 猎 and 猟
獵 U+7375, 獵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7375
← 獴
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 獶 →
獵 U+F9A7, 獵
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9A7
← 簾
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 令 →

Translingual

Traditional 獵
Shinjitai 猟
Simplified 猎

Han character

獵 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 大竹女女女 (KHVVV), four-corner 42216, composition ⿰犭巤)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 720, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20768
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1376, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7375

Chinese

trad. 獵
simp. 猎*
alternative forms 獦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 獵
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (巤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鑞 *raːb
蠟 *raːb
邋 *raːb, *rab
臘 *raːb
臈 *raːb
擸 *raːb, *rab
擖 *kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
獵 *rab
躐 *rab
鬣 *rab
儠 *rab
犣 *rab
鱲 *rab
巤 *rab
獦 *klaːd, *rab

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rab): semantic 犭 + phonetic 巤 (OC *rab).

Etymology

to hunt
Zheng Xuan comments that "là is a designation for the sacrifice made of animals which have been caught in a hunt liè (ljap)" (cited in Bodde, 1975 & Schuessler, 2007), thus considering 臘 (OC *raːb) & 獵 (OC *rab) cognates.
See 臘 for etymology.
turtle, tortoise
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lip (“turtle, tortoise”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007). See there for cognates.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • la̍h - vernacular;
  • lia̍p - literary.
Rime
Character 獵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 葉 (155)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良涉切
Baxter ljep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/liap̚/
Li
Rong 		/liɛp̚/
Wang
Li 		/lĭɛp̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lip6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 獵
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		liè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljep ›
Old
Chinese 		/*rp/
English hunt

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 獵
Reading # 1/1
No. 8150
Phonetic
component 		巤
Rime
group 		盍
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		獵
Old
Chinese 		/*rab/

Definitions

獵

  1. to hunt (animals)
  2. to hunt for; to pursue; to search for
    獵奇／猎奇  ―  lièqí  ―  to hunt for novelty
  3. Used in 獵獵／猎猎 (lièliè).
  4. (obsolete) tortoise; turtle
  5. Alternative form of 躐 (liè, “to trample”)

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

猟

Kyūjitai

獵

Kanji

獵

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 猟)

Readings

  • Go-on: りょう (ryō)←れふ (refu, historical)
  • Kan-on: りょう (ryō)←れふ (refu, historical)
  • Kun: かり (kari, 獵)、かる (karu, 獵る)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 獵 (MC ljep).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 Recorded as Middle Korean 렵〮 (Yale: lyép) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527 산ᄒᆡᇰᄒᆞᆯ 렵〮 Recorded as Middle Korean 렵〮 (lyép) (Yale: lyép) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
  1. ^ 山行—; see Modern Korean 사냥 (sanyang) for more details.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

獵 (eumhun 사냥 렵 (sanyang ryeop), word-initial (South Korea) 사냥 엽 (sanyang yeop))

  1. hanja form? of 렵/엽 (“to hunt”)

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.

Vietnamese

Han character

獵: Hán Nôm readings: liệp

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