羆

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See also: 罴
羆 U+7F86, 羆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F86
← 羅
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羇 →

Translingual

Han character

羆 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中戈心火 (WLIPF), four-corner 60331, composition ⿱罒熊)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 950, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28398
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2928, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7F86

Chinese

trad. 羆
simp. 罴
alternative forms 𦌲
𥀍
𥀧
𥀡
𥀦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (罷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
擺 *preːlʔ
犤 *breːl, *pral, *bral
罷 *breːlʔ, *bral, *bralʔ
矲 *breːlʔ
羆 *pral
襬 *pral, *pʰrals
藣 *pral, *prals

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pral) : phonetic 罷 (OC *breːlʔ, *bral, *bralʔ) + semantic 熊 (“bear”); the common part 能 is shared.

Etymology

Observing that the young of some brown bear subspecies sport white stripes, which fade with age, around their chests, Zhang (2019) proposes that 羆 (OC *praj) is cognate to 斑 (OC *prân) "stripe, striped", both being from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pral. As 斑 (OC *prân) is possibly the same word as 班 (OC *prân) (Schuessler, 2007), see 班 (OC *prân) for more etymology.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 羆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彼爲切
Baxter pje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pjiə̆/
Li
Rong 		/pje/
Wang
Li 		/pǐe/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bei1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 羆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		pí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pje ›
Old
Chinese 		/*praj/
English brown-and-white bear

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 羆
Reading # 1/1
No. 171
Phonetic
component 		罷
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		陂
Old
Chinese 		/*pral/

Definitions

羆

  1. (archaic) brown bear

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

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Kanji

羆

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. brown bear

Readings

  • Go-on: ひ (hi)
  • Kan-on: ひ (hi)
  • Kun: ひぐま (higuma, 羆)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
羆
ひぐま
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
緋熊
樋熊

緋 (hi, “scarlet”) +‎ 熊 (kuma, “bear”)(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “First recorded in the Shinsen Jikyō and Wamyō Ruijushō as shiguma, possibly from splitting the character 羆 vertically into 四(し) (shi, “four”) + 熊(くま) (kuma, “bear”). The syllable shi later shifted to hi, with the latter being standardised since the Taishō era.”

Pronunciation

Noun

羆(ひぐま) or 羆(ヒグマ) • (higuma) 

  1. a brown bear
    三毛別(さんけべつ)羆(ひぐま)事件(じけん)
    Sankebetsu higuma jiken
    Sankebetsu brown bear incident

Korean

Hanja

羆 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

  1. (말곰 비, malgom-): brown bear, horse bear

Synonyms

Vietnamese

Han character

羆: Hán Nôm readings: bi

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