獍

獍 U+734D, 獍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-734D ← 獌 [U+734C] CJK Unified Ideographs 獎 → [U+734E]

Translingual

Han character

獍 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 大竹卜廿山 (KHYTU), four-corner 4021₆, composition ⿰犭竟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 717, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20627
• Dae Jaweon: page 1129, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1366, character 5
• Unihan data for U+734D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		獍

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
滰	*ɡaŋʔ
境	*kraŋʔ
竟	*kraŋs
鏡	*kraŋs
獍	*kraŋs
樈	*ɡraŋ
璄	*qraŋʔ
摬	*qraŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kraŋs): semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 竟 (OC *kraŋs).

Etymology

A late word; its earliest extant attestation is in the late 5th-century treatise 《述異記》 Tales of Strange Matters by 任昉 Ren Fang (460-508).

Related to 破鏡 (OC *pʰaːls kraŋs, “a beast that eats its own father”) mentioned in the Book of Han.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to 景 (MC kjaengX, “great, large”)? Is Vietnamese kễnh (“tiger (dialectal)”) a loan from pre-Tang MC?”

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jìng (jing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ging³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìng
    • Wade–Giles: ching⁴
    • Yale: jìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinq
    • Palladius: цзин (czin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ging³
    • Yale: ging
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ging³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ging³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɪŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kjaengH

Rime
Character	獍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居慶切
Baxter	kjaengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiæŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚiaŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kiaŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kiajŋH/
Li Rong	/kiɐŋH/
Wang Li	/kĭɐŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ki̯ɐŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ging3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	獍
Reading #	1/1
No.	6871
Phonetic component	竟
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	敬
Old Chinese	/*kraŋs/

Definitions

獍

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a mythical tiger-like animal that eats its own mother shortly after birth

Compounds

• 梟獍 / 枭獍 (xiāojìng)
• 梟獍其心 / 枭獍其心
• 獍梟 / 獍枭 (jìngxiāo)
• 獍難 / 獍难
• 破獍 (pòjìng)
• 行同梟獍 / 行同枭獍
• 衣冠梟獍 / 衣冠枭獍 (yīguānxiāojìng)

Japanese

Kanji

獍

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō)
• Kun: かがみ (kagami)