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See also:
U+8C55, 豕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C55

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2F97, ⾗
KANGXI RADICAL PIG

Kangxi Radicals

豕 U+2F9D2, 豕
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9D2
變
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𧲨

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

There are typographical differences in this character in different fonts – in Japanese printing, the last two strokes may connect to the top stroke, as in right of , while in handwriting and many other fonts, those strokes connect to the central curving stroke.

Depending on the font, the character (Japanese) / (Traditional Chinese) may also have either of these variations.

Han character

(Kangxi radical 152, +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一尸竹人 (MSHO), four-corner 10232, composition 𧰨(GHT) or 𬺻丿(G) or 𬺻丿(HT) or 𬺻丿(JKV))

  1. Kangxi radical #152, .

Derived characters

See also

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1194, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36337
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1657, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3610, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8C55

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𢁓
𡰯
𧰧
𧰬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a pig. Compare , 𢑓 (male pig), and (castrated male pig). See also the original version on oracle bones of .

Related to , in which however the pig is a phonetic component.

Etymology

Possibly from Austroasiatic (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *liik ~ *lik (pig) and Mon ကၠိက် (kloik, pig). Also occurs in the Cai-Long languages, from which Hölzl (2021) derives the name Ta-Li for the aforementioned language subgroup.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (26)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter syeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕiə̆X/
Li
Rong
/ɕieX/
Wang
Li
/ɕǐeX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɕie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
si2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ syeX ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ajʔ/
English swine

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. 11509
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hliʔ/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete) pig; boar

Synonyms

  • (hài) (zodiac)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. pig, hog

Readings

  • Go-on: (shi)
  • Kan-on: (shi)
  • Kun: いのこ (inoko, )ぶた (buta, )

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 돼지 (dwaeji si))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: thỉ

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