猵

猵 U+7335, 猵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7335 ← 猴 [U+7334] CJK Unified Ideographs 猶 → [U+7336]

Translingual

Han character

猵 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大竹竹尸月 (KHHSB) or 大竹戈尸月 (KHISB), four-corner 4322₇, composition ⿰犭扁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 715, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20556
• Dae Jaweon: page 1127, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1360, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7335

Chinese

trad.		猵
simp. #		猵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (扁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
斒	*preːn, *praːn
鯿	*praːn, *pen
編	*pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
揙	*pen
褊	*penʔ
篇	*pʰen
偏	*pʰen, *pʰens
翩	*pʰen
媥	*pʰen
扁	*pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ
萹	*pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ
騗	*pʰens
騙	*pʰens
諞	*ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ
楄	*ben, *beːn
蝙	*peːn
甂	*peːn
猵	*peːn, *binʔ
牑	*peːn
蹁	*peːn, *beːn
匾	*peːnʔ
碥	*peːnʔ
惼	*peːnʔ
糄	*peːnʔ
徧	*peːns
遍	*peːns
頨	*peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan
艑	*beːnʔ

Etymology

Peiros & Starostin (1996) (apud Schuessler, 2007) compares this to Burmese ဖျံ (hpyam, “otter”). STEDT provisionally reconstructs Proto-Tibeto-Burman *phyam (“otter”) & compares Chinese & Burmese words to Chak [Term?] (phaing) and Marma [script needed] (phaing).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biān (bian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bian
    • Wade–Giles: pien¹
    • Yale: byān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bian
    • Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bin¹
    • Yale: bīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pen, bjinX

Rime
Character	猵	猵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	布玄切	毗忍切
Baxter	pen	bjinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pen/	/biɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/pen/	/binX/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛn/	/bjenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛn/	/binX/
Li Rong	/pen/	/biĕnX/
Wang Li	/pien/	/bĭĕnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pien/	/bʱi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biān	bìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin1	ban6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*peːn/, /*binʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	猵	猵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	727	746
Phonetic component	扁	扁
Rime group	元	眞
Rime subdivision	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	邊	牝
Old Chinese	/*peːn/	/*binʔ/

Definitions

猵

1. otter

   • 夫畜池魚者必去猵獺，養禽獸者必去豺狼，又況治人乎！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     夫畜池鱼者必去猵獭，养禽兽者必去豺狼，又况治人乎！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Huainanzi, 2^nd century BCE

     Fú xù chíyú zhě bì qù biāntǎ, yǎng qínshòu zhě bì qù cháiláng, yòu kuàng zhì rén hū! [Pinyin]

     One who raises fish in ponds needs to fend off otters; one who rears fowls and livestock needs to fend off dholes and wolves; let alone more to govern people!

Synonyms

(otter): 獺／獭 (tǎ)

Compounds

• 猵狙
• 猵獺 / 猵獭

Japanese

Kanji

猵

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): へん (hen)、ひん (hin)、びん (bin)