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Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • , 𩮞, 𢟆

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mrɯː
*mrɯː
*mrɯː
*ʔr'ɯː
*rɯ
*rɯ
*p·rɯ
*rɯ
*rɯ
*rɯʔ
*rɯʔ
*rɯʔ
*rɯʔ
*rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
*rɯʔ
*rɯʔ
*r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ li › ‹ li ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ə/ /*p.rə/
English 𧳏狸 *pə.[r]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. *[t] 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. raccoon dog

Compounds

  • 狸貓狸猫
  • 發屋求狸发屋求狸
  • 老狐狸
  • 花狸狐哨
  • 花面狸
  • 野狐狸

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. raccoon dog

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
たぬき
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana たぬき, katakana タヌキ, romaji tanuki)

  1. raccoon dog

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (너구리 , neoguri-): raccoon dog

Synonyms


Okinawan

Kanji

(hiragana たぬき, romaji tanuki)

Etymology

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

Noun

(hiragana たぬき, romaji tanuki)

  1. raccoon dog

References

  1. 1896: 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”). In Japanese. http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/992016/63

Vietnamese

Han character

(li)

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