獴

獴 U+7374, 獴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7374 ← 獳 [U+7373] CJK Unified Ideographs 獵 → [U+7375]

Translingual

Han character

獴 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 大竹廿月人 (KHTBO), composition ⿰犭蒙)

Derived characters

• 𧃶

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 720, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20761
• Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1371, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7374

Chinese

trad.		獴
simp. #		獴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): měng, méng, mǎng (meng³, meng², mang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ, ㄇㄥˊ, ㄇㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng²
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): mong⁵ / mou⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: měng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: měng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng³
    • Yale: měng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng²
    • Yale: méng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǎng
    • Wade–Giles: mang³
    • Yale: mǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maang
    • Palladius: ман (man)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mung⁴
    • Yale: mùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mong⁵ / mou⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mông / môu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /moŋ⁵⁵/, /mou⁵⁵/

Etymology 1

Phono-semantic matching of English mongoose.

Definitions

獴

1. mongoose

Compounds

• 狐獴
• 紅頰獴 / 红颊獴
• 蛇獴
• 蟹獴
• 赤頰獴 / 赤颊獴
• 食蟹獴
• 馬島獴 / 马岛獴 (Mǎdǎo měng)

 

Etymology 2

Definitions

獴

1. Only used in 獴𤡱 (“a kind of monkey”).

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “獴”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.