嘼

Translingual

Han character

嘼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口口田一口 (RRWMR), composition ⿱㽞𠮛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 207, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4279
• Dae Jaweon: page 430, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 683, character 6
• Unihan data for U+563C

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嘼
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (嘼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
獸	*qʰljus
嘼	*qʰlus

Pictogram (象形) . Very deformed. The traditional (and incorrect) etymology says that 嘼 originally was a pictogram of an animal, with 吅 being the ears, 囟 (simplified to 田) being the head, and 禸 (simplified to 𠮛) being the tail.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 嘼 – see 畜 (“livestock”). (This character is a variant form of 畜).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 嘼 – see 畜 (“to raise; to rear”). (This character is a variant form of 畜).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 嘼 – see 獸 (“beast; animal; bestial; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 獸).

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Japanese

Kanji

嘼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きゅう (kyū); く (ku); ちゅう (chū)
• Kun: やしなう (yashinau)

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Korean

Hanja

嘼 (eum 휴 (hyu))

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