狼

See also 狠

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 犭 + phonetic 良

Han character

狼 (radical 94 犬+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹戈日女 (KHIAV), four-corner 4323₂)

1. wolf

References

• KangXi: page 712, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20432
• Dae Jaweon: page 1124, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1350, character 7
• Unihan data for U+72FC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

狼 (Yale long4)

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Japanese

Kanji

狼 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. wolf

Readings

• On: ろう (rō)
• Kun: おおかみ (ōkami)

Compounds

Compounds

狼咽 (ろういん, rōin): cleft palate 狼烟 (ろうえん, rōen): a signal fire 狼煙 (ろうえん, rōen / のろし, noroshi): a signal fire 狼煙守 (のろしまもり, noroshimamori): a signal fire keeper or tender 狼火 (ろうか, rōka): a signal fire 狼燧 (ろうすい, rōsui): a signal fire 狼牙 (みつもとそう, mitsumotosō): a type of cinquefoil, sp. Potentilla cryptotaeniae 狼牙棒 (ろうげぼう, rōgebō): a wolf's teeth mace 狼座 (おおかみざ, ōkamiza): the Lupus constellation 狼子野心 (ろうしやしん, rōshiyashin): untamed 狼者 (おおかみもの, ōkamimono): a brazen, impudent, or cunning person 狼星 (ろうせい, rōsei): Sirius, the Dog Star

狼弾 (おおかみはじき, ōkami hajiki): 狼毒 (ろうどく, rōdoku): Japanese wolfsbane, a poisonous perennial of the family Thymelaeaceae 狼狽 (ろうばい, rōbai / うろたえ, urotae): panic, confusion 狼狽眼 (うろたえまなこ, urotae manako): surprised or panicked eyes 狼狽者 (うろたえもの, urotaemono): an easily confused person 狼戻 (ろうれい, rōrei): disorderly; violent; savage 狼瘡 (ろうそう, rōsō): (pathology) lupus 狼藉 (ろうぜき, rōzeki / ろうじゃく, rōjaku): disorderly; violent; savage 狼藉者 (ろうぜきもの, rōzekimono): a ruffian 狼藉日 (ろうじゃくにち, rōjakunichi): in the Onmyōdō religion, a day when everything is evil 狼男 (おおかみおとこ, ōkamiotoko): a werewolf

Etymology 1

opokami > oɸokami > owokami > ookami > oːkami. Literally “great god”, from 大 (opo, “great”) and 神 (kami, “god”).

Noun

狼 (hiragana おおかみ, romaji ōkami, historical hiragana おほかみ)

1. wolf; Canis lupus
   • 794: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki

     狐狼 上扈反, 倭言岐都禰, 又狐諼獸鬼所乘有三徳, 狐疑不定也, 狼音良, 訓, 似犬也, 倭言大神也

   • 931-938: Wamyō Ruijushō (book 7 page 56)

     犲狼 [...] 説文云、狼、音郎、於保加美、和名二字、本草和名、犲皮、和名於保加美、雄略紀、豺狼二字同訓、貝原氏曰、狼、於保加美 [...]

   • 931-938: Wamyō Ruijushō (book 18 page 17) (Shinpukuji manuscript)

     犲狼: 兼名苑云狼一名犲音於説文云狼音即和名於保加美似犬而銃頭白頬者也爾雅注云獥音叫狼子也

   • c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō

     狼（オホカミ）

   • 1444: Kagakushū (Volume 13)

     狼（ヲヽカミ）

See also

• 狼 (ōkame)

Etymology 2

Corrupted form of ōkami.

Noun

狼 (hiragana おおかめ, romaji ōkame)

1. wolf; Canis lupus
   • 1593: Esopono fabulas (Aesop's Fables), "Vôcameto, fitcujino tatoyeno coto"

     Aru cauabatani vôcamemo, fitcujimo mizzuuo nomuni, [...]

   • 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho (page 697)

     Vôcame. ヲゥカメ (狼) 狼.

   • 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium Sive Thesauri Linguae Iaponicae Compendium, p. 75

     Lupus, i: lobo: yàmàinu. vel, vocame:

References

• 1980 May 22 [1603–1604], Tadao Doi, Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0008-0021-3:
• 1944 May 22 [1444], Takashi Kamei, Kagakushū: Gennabon (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten:
• 1968 May 22 [931-938], Shitagō Minamoto; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu, Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 4-653-00507-9:

• 1971 [c. 1177-1188], Tachibana Tadakane; Atsuo Masamune (ed.), Iroha Jiruishō (in Japanese), Kazama Shobō:
• 1962 May 22, Rizō Takeuchi, Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 4-4903-0010-7:

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Korean

Hanja

狼
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 랑>낭 (revised: rang>nang, McCune-Reischauer: rang>nang, Yale: lang>nang)

• Name (hangeul): 이리()

1. (이리 랑, iri-): wolf

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

狼 (pinyin hǎng (hang3), láng (lang2), lǎng (lang3), làng (lang4), Wade-Giles hang³, lang², lang³, lang⁴)

Compounds

• 狼人 (lángrén): a werewolf
• 狼吞虎咽

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Vietnamese

Han character

狼 (lang)