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Translingual
Han character
餮 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 一竹人戈女 (MHOIV), four-corner 18732, composition ⿱殄食)
- a legendary animal
- a greedy person
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1422, character 39
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44268
- Dae Jaweon: page 1948, character 24
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4464, character 2
- Unihan data for U+992E
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 沴
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*rɯːls
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| 趁
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*nlanʔ, *l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
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| 紾
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*ʔl'anʔ, *kljɯnʔ
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| 跈
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*nlɯːnʔ, *l'ɯːnʔ
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| 殄
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*l'ɯːnʔ
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| 抮
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*hlɯːnʔ
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| 駗
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*rɯn, *kljɯnʔ
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| 珍
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*ʔl'ɯn
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| 診
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*l'ɯns, *kljɯnʔ
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| 畛
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*kljɯn, *kljɯnʔ
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| 疹
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*kljɯnʔ
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| 軫
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*kljɯnʔ
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| 胗
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*kljɯnʔ, *klɯnʔ
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| 袗
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*kljɯnʔ, *kljɯns
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| 眕
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*kljɯnʔ
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| 飻
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*l̥ʰɯːd
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| 餮
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*r̥ʰɯːd
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *r̥ʰɯːd) : phonetic 殄 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + semantic 食 (“food”).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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餮
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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tiè
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ thet ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁət/
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| English
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饕餮 thaw.thet glutton
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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餮
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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17108
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Phonetic
component
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疹
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Rime
group
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物
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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鐵
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Old
Chinese
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/*r̥ʰɯːd/
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| Notes
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說文作飻
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Definitions
餮
- (literary) gluttonous; greedy
- Used in 饕餮 (tāotiè).
- Used in 餮切.
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
餮
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
餮 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)
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Vietnamese
Han character
餮: Hán Việt readings: thiết[1][2]
餮: Nôm readings: thiết[3]
- chữ Hán form of thiết (“thao thiết (饕餮), a gluttonous monster from Chinese legend”).
References