豝

豝 (Kangxi radical 152, 豕+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一人日山 (MOAU), four-corner 1721₇, composition ⿰豕巴)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1195, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36356
• Dae Jaweon: page 1657, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3612, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8C5D

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *praː) : semantic 豕 (“pig; boar”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“pig”); if so, cognate with Tibetan ཕག (phag), Burmese ဝက် (wak) (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

However, there are phonological mismatches:

• A medial *-r- in Old Chinese should correspond to a pre-initial in Tibeto-Burman, but this is not present (Schuessler, 2007).
• A final *-k is present in Tibeto-Burman yet absent in Old Chinese, which is an irregular correspondence (Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2011b).

Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) considers Waic *bras (“wild boar”) a better match. Meanwhile Sagart (2011b) suggests Tibetan བ (ba, “female cow”) and Queyu bra (“female cow”) as possible comparanda; if so, a semantic analogy would be 豬 (OC *ta, “pig”), possibly a rural dialectal variant (from the sound changes *ʈa < *tra < *Cra) of 豭 (OC *kraː, “male pig”) and its homophone 麚 (OC *kraː, “stag”), with *kra meaning "male animal" generally (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007).

豝

1. ^† sow (female pig)

   • 彼茁者葭、壹發五豝。于嗟乎騶虞。彼茁者蓬、壹發五豵。于嗟乎騶虞。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     彼茁者葭、壹发五豝。于嗟乎驺虞。彼茁者蓬、壹发五𫎆。于嗟乎驺虞。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Bǐ zhuó zhě jiā, yī fā wǔ bā. Yú jiēhū zōuyú. Bǐ zhuó zhě péng, yī fā wǔ zōng. Yú jiēhū zōuyú.

     Strong and abundant grow the rushes; He discharges one arrow at five wild sows. Ah! he is the Zou-yu!
     Strong and abundant grow the artemisia; He discharges one arrow at five wild piglets. Ah! he is the Zou-yu!

2. ^† one- or two-year-old pig (or creature)
3. ^† Alternative form of 羓 (bā, “dried meat”)

• → Proto-Hmong: *mpæꟲ (“pig”)

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha)