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獸

獸

See also: 獣 and 兽

Translingual

Traditional 獸
Shinjitai 獣
Simplified 兽

Han character

獸 (radical 94 犬+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK) or X口口戈大 (XRRIK), four-corner 63634, composition ⿰嘼犬)

References

  • KangXi: page 721, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20775
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1375, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7378

Chinese

trad. 獸
simp. 兽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 獸
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (嘼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
獸 *qʰljus
嘼 *qʰlus

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 獸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舒救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕuwH/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiuH/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 獸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s/
English (wild) animal

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 獸
Reading # 1/1
No. 11712
Phonetic
component		 嘼
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 狩
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰljus/

Noun

獸

  1. beast, animal

Compounds

Adjective

獸

  1. bestial

Japanese

Kanji

獸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 獣)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

獸 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

獸 (thú)

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