狸

See also: 貍

Translingual

Han character

狸 (radical 94 犬+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹田土 (KHWG), four-corner 4621₄, composition ⿰犭里)

1. raccoon dog (tanuki)

References

• KangXi: page 711, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20427
• Dae Jaweon: page 1123, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1348, character 11
• Unihan data for U+72F8

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		狸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lí (li²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): lî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
    • IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁴
    • Yale: lèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lî
    • Tâi-lô: lî
    • IPA (Taipei): /li²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (狸, reconstructed)
Character (狸), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 里之切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɨ/	/li/	/liə/	/lɨ/	/lɨ/	/lĭə/	/lie/

Old Chinese pronunciation (狸, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
狸								lí								‹ li ›								/*[r]ə/								𧳏狸 *pə.[r]ə kind of wild cat (Jiāngnán pron. ap. Guō Pú, ca. 300 CE)
狸								lí								‹ li ›								/*p.rə/								kind of wild cat (pron. west of the Hángǔ pass, ap. Fāngyán)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
狸					7822					里					之					0					釐					/*rɯ/					俗貍字

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Japanese

Kanji

狸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 貍)

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Readings

• On: り (ri)
• Kun: たぬき (tanuki)

Kanji in this term

狸

たぬき Hyōgaiji

kun'yomi

Noun

狸 (hiragana たぬき, katakana タヌキ, romaji tanuki)

1. raccoon dog

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Korean

Hanja

狸 (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune-Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

1. (너구리 리, neoguri-): raccoon dog

Synonyms

• 山獺 (산달, sandal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

狸 (li)

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