狼

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Noun 3.1.2 See also 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Noun 3.2.2 Kanji 3.2.2.1 Readings 3.3 References 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Han character

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

1. wolf

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

狼 (Yale long4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

opokami > oɸokami > owokami > ookami > oːkami. Literally "great god", from opo (“‘great’”) and kami (“‘god’”).

[edit] Noun

狼 (hiragana おおかみ, romaji ōkami)

1. wolf; Canis lupus
   • 934-938: 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 [...]

   • 934-938: 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）

[edit] See also

• 狼 (ōkame)

[edit] Etymology 2

Corrupted form of ōkami.

[edit] 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:

[edit] Kanji

狼

[edit] Readings

• On: ろう (rō)
• Kun: おおかみ (ōkami)

[edit] References

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

• Tadakane, Tachibana; Atsuo Masamune (ed.) [c. 1177-1188] (1971). Iroha Jiruishō (in Japanese). Kazama Shobō.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] 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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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] Compounds

• 狼吞虎咽

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

狼 (lang)