獴

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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Chinese

trad.		獴
simp. #		獴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蒙
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
蒙	*moːŋ
冡	*moːŋ
濛	*moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
艨	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
朦	*moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
矇	*moːŋ
饛	*moːŋ
檬	*moːŋ
鸏	*moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
幪	*moːŋ
蠓	*moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
靀	*moːŋ
曚	*moːŋʔ

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English mongoose.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

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

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ, ㄇㄥˊ, ㄇㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁴
• 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/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mong⁵ / mou⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mông / môu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /moŋ⁵⁵/, /mou⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 獴

1. mongoose