獸

獸 U+7378, 獸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7378 ← 獷 [U+7377] CJK Unified Ideographs 獹 → [U+7379]

See also: 獣 and 兽

Translingual

Traditional	獸
Shinjitai	獣
Simplified	兽

Han character

獸 (radical 94 犬+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK) or X口口戈大 (XRRIK), four-corner 6363₄, composition ⿰嘼犬)

References

• KangXi: page 721, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20775
• Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1375, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7378

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Chinese

trad.		獸
simp.		兽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 獸
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (嘼) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
獸	*qʰljus
嘼	*qʰlus

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shòu (shou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhu
• Min Nan (POJ): siù
• Wu (Wiktionary): seu (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: show
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau³
    • Yale: sau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo³
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhu
    • Hakka Romanization System: cu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cu⁴
    • IPA: /t͡sʰu⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siù
    • Tâi-lô: siù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiu²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiu²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: seu (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /sɜ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨu^H/▼

Rime
Character	獸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	舒救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuwH/
Li Rong	/ɕiuH/
Wang Li	/ɕĭəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shòu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰljus/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	獸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shòu
Middle Chinese	‹ syuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s/
English	(wild) animal
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	獸
Reading #	1/1
No.	11712
Phonetic component	嘼
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	狩
Old Chinese	/*qʰljus/

Noun

獸

1. beast, animal

Compounds

Compounds

• 獸姦／兽奸 (shòujiān, “bestiality (sexual activity)”)

Adjective

獸

1. bestial

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Japanese

Kanji

獸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 獣)

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Readings

• Goon: しゅ (shu)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū)
• Kan’yōon: じゅう (jū)
• Kun: けもの (kemono), けだもの (kedamono)

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Korean

Hanja

獸 • (su) (hangeul 수, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Compounds

• 수간 (獸姦, sugan, “bestiality (sexual activity)”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

獸 (thú)

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