羆

羆 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中戈心火 (WLIPF), four-corner 6033₁, composition ⿱罒熊)

• 𤜑, 𧟍, 𨰟, 𧄾, 𥷾

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 950, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28398
• Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2928, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7F86

Historical forms of the character 羆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pral): phonetic 罷 (OC *breːlʔ, *bral, *bralʔ) + semantic 熊 (“bear”); the common part 能 is shared.

Zhang (2019) observes that the young of some brown bear subspecies sport white stripes, which fade with age, around their chests, and proposes that 羆 (OC *praj) is cognate to 斑 (OC *prân) "stripe, striped", both being from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pral. As 斑 (OC *prân) is possibly the same word as 班 (OC *prân) (Schuessler, 2007), see 班 (OC *prân) for more etymology.

Meanwhile, Zhang, Jacques, and Lai (2019) compare 羆 (OC *praj) to Brag-bar Situ prī (“Asiatic brown bear”), Cogtse Situ prī (“idem”), and Japhug pri (“idem”).

羆

1. (archaic) brown bear

   • 吉夢維何、
     維熊維羆、
     維虺維蛇。
     吉梦维何、
     维熊维罴、
     维虺维蛇。

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Jí mèng wéi hé,
     Wéi xióng wéi pí,
     Wéi huǐ wéi shé.

     What dreams are lucky?
     They have been about black bears and brown bears,
     They have been about asps and adders.

• 馬熊／马熊 (mǎxióng)
• 人熊 (rénxióng)
• 棕熊 (zōngxióng)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

ヒグマ

Wikipedia ^ja

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. brown bear

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: ひぐま (higuma, 羆)

緋 (hi, “scarlet”) +‎ 熊 (kuma, “bear”)(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Tokyo) ひぐま (Heiban – )
• (Tokyo) ひぐま (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

羆(ひぐま) or 羆(ヒグマ) • (higuma) 

1. a brown bear

   三毛別(さんけべつ)羆(ひぐま)事件(じけん)

   Sankebetsu higuma jiken

   Sankebetsu brown bear incident

羆 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. (말곰 비, malgom-): brown bear, horse bear

• 熊 (웅, ung) bear

羆: Hán Nôm readings: bi

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