獸

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See also: 獣 and 兽
獸 U+7378, 獸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7378
← 獷
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 獹 →

Translingual

Traditional 獸
Shinjitai 獣
Simplified 兽

Han character

獸 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK) or 難口口戈大 (XRRIK), four-corner 63634, composition ⿰嘼犬)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 721, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20775
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1375, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7378

Chinese

trad. 獸
simp. 兽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 獸
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (嘼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
獸 *qʰljus
嘼 *qʰlus

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 單 (“hunting weapon”) + 犬 (“dog”) – "hunting". 口 was added later (see 嘼).

Etymology

Exopassive of 狩 (OC *qʰljus, “to hunt”), literally "what is hunted" (Schuessler, 2007). Speculatively, 獸 (OC *qʰljus) can be compared with Tibetan འཆོར་བ ('chor ba, “to hunt”) (ibid.).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 獸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舒救切
Baxter syuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕiuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕuwH/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiuH/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭəuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sau3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 獸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ syuwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s/
English (wild) animal

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 獸
Reading # 1/1
No. 11712
Phonetic
component 		嘼
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		狩
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰljus/

Definitions

獸

  1. beast; animal
  2. bestial
  3. (subculture) furry
    獸迷／兽迷  ―  shòumí  ―  Furry fandom

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

獣

Kyūjitai

獸

Kanji

獸

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 獣)

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Readings

  • Go-on: しゅ (shu)
  • Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
  • Kan’yō-on: じゅう (jū)
  • Kun: けもの (kemono, 獸)、けだもの (kedamono, 獸)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

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Wikisource

獸 • (su) (hangeul 수, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

獸: Hán Nôm readings: thú

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