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U+72F8, 狸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-72F8

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 94, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹田土 (KHWG), four-corner 46214, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 711, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20427
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1123, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1348, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+72F8

Chinese

trad. /*
simp.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *rɯ) : semantic (dog) + phonetic (OC *rɯʔ). Originally an unorthodox variant (俗字) of the character ().

Etymology

Uncertain. Here some proposals:

Pronunciation


Note:
  • lǐ - literary;
  • sâ̤ - vernacular.
Note:
  • li5 - literary;
  • lai5 - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter li
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/lie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɨ/
Li
Rong
/liə/
Wang
Li
/lĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lei4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ li › ‹ li ›
Old
Chinese
/*ə/ /*p.rə/
English 𧳏狸 *pə.ə kind of wild cat (Jiāngnán pron. ap. Guō Pú, ca. 300 CE) kind of wild cat (pron. west of the Hángǔ pass, ap. Fāngyán)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7822
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rɯ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. leopard cat
  2. raccoon dog
  3. (obsolete) cat

Compounds

Japanese

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Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. raccoon dog
  2. wild cat

Readings

  • Go-on: (ri)
  • Kan-on: (ri)
  • Kun: たぬき (tanuki, )

Compounds

Etymology 1

(tanuki): a raccoon dog
Kanji in this term
たぬき
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling

According to one theory, derived from 手貫 (tanuki, arm glove, gauntlet), which raccoon dog hide was sometimes used for.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

(たぬき) or (タヌキ) (tanuki

  1. a raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides
    Synonyms: マミ (mami), (mujina)
  2. (figurative) a person who pretends to be good but in fact is cunning (compare English sly fox)
  3. Short for 狸饂飩 (tanuki-udon) and 狸蕎麦 (tanuki-soba): styles of various noodle dishes
  4. (rare) Short for 狸寝入り (tanuki neiri): pretending to be asleep
    (たぬき)()()tanuki o kimekomupretend to be a raccoon dog → feign sleep
  5. (rare, obsolete) Short for 狸汁 (tanuki-jiru): a soup made from tanuki meat mixed with daikon, burdock root, etc.
Usage notes
Derived terms
Idioms
Proverbs
Descendants
  • English: tanuki, tanooki
See also

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
たたけ
Hyōgai
irregular
Alternative spelling
狸毛

⟨tatake2 → */tatakəɨ//tatake/

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

Noun

(たたけ) or (たたげ) (tatake or tatage

  1. (archaic, obsolete) a raccoon dog
    • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki:
      猫狸 [...] ニ又漢云野貍、倭言上尼古、下多〻既
      Cat and raccoon dog, both of them are called 野貍 (yari) in Chinese; the former is called 尼古 (⟨neko1 → neko) while the latter is called 多〻既 (⟨tatake2tatake) in Japanese.
  2. (archaic, obsolete) the hair of a raccoon dog, used for making brushes
    • 1445, Ainōshō, published 1446:
      タゝゲ(フデ)ナンド(イフ)タゝ()トハ。タヌキノ毛歟(ケカ)(タヌキ)()ヲ。タゝゲトヨム
      Tatage no fude nando iu. Tatage to wa, tanuki no ke ka. Tanuki no ji o, tatage to yomu
      This is a so-called brush [made] of tatage. Tatage [spelled by the character meaning "hair"] might mean the hair of a raccoon dog. The character for "raccoon dog" is read as tatage.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
たのき
Hyōgai
irregular

Cognate with tanuki above.

Considered to be a result of irregular apophony in the medieval times.[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

(たのき) (tanoki

  1. (dated, dialectal, Western Japan, chiefly Kansai) a raccoon dog
    • c. 1529, Mōgyūshō
      ししやたのき(やう)(ひと)でをり(さうらう)
      Shishi ya tanoki no yō na hito de ori sōrō zo
      His personality is like a deer or raccoon dog, sir.
  2. (dated, dialectal, Kansai) Short for 狸饂飩 (tanoki-udon) and 狸蕎麦 (tanoki-soba): styles of various noodle dishes
See also

References

  1. ^ タヌキ/狸/たぬき”, in 語源由来辞典 (Gogen Yurai Jiten, Etymology Derivation Dictionary) (in Japanese), 2003–2024.
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  4. ^ ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

Korean

Hanja

(ri>i) (hangeul >, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

  1. (너구리 , neoguri-): raccoon dog

Synonyms

Okinawan

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as たぬき.[1]

Noun

(たぬき) (tanuki

  1. raccoon dog

References

  1. ^ Nakamoto, Masayo (中本政世) (1896) 沖縄語典, Hikone (彦根市): Eishōdō (永昌堂), →DOI, page 63

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: li

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