獜

獜 U+735C, 獜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-735C ← 獛 [U+735B] CJK Unified Ideographs 獝 → [U+735D]

Translingual

Han character

獜 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 大竹火木手 (KHFDQ), composition ⿰犭粦)

1. very healthy dog

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 718, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20680
• Dae Jaweon: page 1129, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1369, character 7
• Unihan data for U+735C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		獜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
潾	*rriːn, *rin
膦	*renʔ
憐	*riːn
燐	*rin, *rins
鄰	*rin
轔	*rin, *rins
嶙	*rin, *rinʔ
粼	*rin, *rins
磷	*rin, *rins
疄	*rin, *rins
麟	*rin
鱗	*rin
璘	*rin
翷	*rin
瞵	*rin, *rins
獜	*rin, *reːŋ
驎	*rin
鏻	*rin, *rins, *reːŋ
繗	*rin
僯	*rinʔ
橉	*rinʔ, *rins
撛	*rinʔ, *rins
遴	*rins
粦	*rins
甐	*rins

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rin, *reːŋ): semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 粦 (OC *rins)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lín (lin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lín
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lín
    • Wade–Giles: lin²
    • Yale: lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lin
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: lin, leng

Rime
Character	獜	獜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	力珍切	郎丁切
Baxter	lin	leng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪn/	/leŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/lin/	/leŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ljen/	/lɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lin/	/lɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/liĕn/	/leŋ/
Wang Li	/lĭĕn/	/lieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ĕn/	/lieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lín	líng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lan4	ling4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*rin/, /*reːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	獜	獜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8206	8227
Phonetic component	粦	粦
Rime group	眞	耕
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	㷠	靈
Old Chinese	/*rin/	/*reːŋ/
Notes	詩盧令作令

Definitions

獜

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) healthy dog
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of monster
   • c. Han era, “中山經 [Zhōngshān jīng]”, in 山海經 [Shānhǎijīng, Classic of Mountains and Seas]:

     有獸焉，其狀如犬，虎爪有甲，其名曰獜 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有兽焉，其状如犬，虎爪有甲，其名曰獜 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     yǒu shòu yān, qí zhuàng rú quǎn, hǔzhǎo yǒu jiǎ, qí míng yuē lín [Pinyin]

     There are a kind of beast that be dog-shaped with armor and tiger claws, its name is Lin

Korean

Hanja

獜 • (rin>in) (hangeul 린>인, revised rin>in, McCune–Reischauer rin>in, Yale lin>in)

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