饕

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饕 U+9955, 饕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9955
← 饔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 饖 →

Translingual

Han character

饕 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+13, 22 strokes, cangjie input 口弓人戈女 (RNOIV) or 口山人戈女 (RUOIV), four-corner 61732, composition ⿱號食)

  1. gluttonous, greedy, covetous

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1426, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44426
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4476, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9955

Chinese

trad. 饕
simp. # 饕
alternative forms 𧈐

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (号) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
饕 *l̥ʰaːw
號 *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws
号 *ɦlaːws
枵 *hraw
呺 *hraw
鴞 *ɦraw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰaːw) : phonetic 號 (OC *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws) + semantic 食 (“food”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 饕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 土刀切
Baxter thaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰɑu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰɑu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰaw/
Li
Rong 		/tʰɑu/
Wang
Li 		/tʰɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tʰɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		tou1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 饕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tāo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ thaw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁaw/
English 饕餮 thaw.thet glutton

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 饕
Reading # 1/1
No. 4915
Phonetic
component 		号
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		饕
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ʰaːw/

Definitions

饕

  1. (literary) gluttonous; greedy; covetous
  2. Used in 饕餮 (tāotiè).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

饕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

饕 (eum 도 (do))

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Vietnamese

Han character

饕: Hán Nôm readings: thao

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