走狗

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Chinese

 
to walk; to go; to move
to walk; to go; to move; to leave
 dog
simp. and trad.
(走狗) 		走 狗
Literally: “running dog”.
Wikipedia has articles on:
大陸走狗 (trans.: 'running dog of mainland China')

Etymology

Attestable in pre-Qin texts in the "hunting dog" sense.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 走 走 狗
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13) 精 (13) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 侯 (137) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I I I
Fanqie 子苟切 則候切 古厚切
Baxter tsuwX tsuwH kuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡səuX/ /t͡səuH/ /kəuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡səuX/ /t͡səuH/ /kəuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡səuX/ /t͡səuH/ /kəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡səwX/ /t͡səwH/ /kəwX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡suX/ /t͡suH/ /kuX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡səuX/ /t͡səuH/ /kəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sə̯uX/ /t͡sə̯uH/ /kə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zǒu zòu gǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zau2 zau3 gau2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 走 狗
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zǒu gǒu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsuwX › ‹ kuwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁoʔ/ /*Cə.kˁroʔ/
English run dog

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 走 走 狗
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 17906 17907 7068
Phonetic
component 		走 走 句
Rime
group 		侯 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision 		0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		走 奏 苟
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsoːʔ/ /*ʔsoːs/ /*koːʔ/

Noun

走狗

  1. (literary) hunting dog; hound
  2. (literary, historical) dog racing game in ancient times
  3. (figurative, politics, derogatory) running dog; lackey; cat's paw; person subservient to counterrevolutionary or evil interests
    資本家的走狗／资本家的走狗  ―  zīběnjiā de zǒugǒu  ―  running dog of capitalists
  4. (literary, humble) self-deprecating form of address for oneself; the servant me; I, the follower

Synonyms

Descendants

  • → English: running dog (calque)

Verb

走狗

  1. (literary) to make a dog run or hunt

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 文若愚 (2014) 语言常识全知道, 中国华侨出版社

Japanese

Kanji in this term
走 狗
そう
Grade: 2 		く
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

走(そう)狗(く) • (sōku) 

  1. hound
  2. a tool of another person, cat's paw
    • 1929, 小林多喜二, 不在地主:
      警(けい)察(さつ)は如何(いか)にも君(きみ)等(ら)の言(い)う通(とお)り、資(し)本(ほん)家(か)の走(そう)狗(く)だ。
      Keisatsu wa ika ni mo kimi-ra no iu-tōri, shihonka no sōku da.
      Like you all said, those police are nothing more than capitalist tools.
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