貔

Translingual

Han character

貔 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹田心 (BHHWP), four-corner 2621₁, composition ⿰豸𣬉)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1202, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36606
• Dae Jaweon: page 1664, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3916, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8C94

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Chinese

trad.		貔
simp. #		貔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
梐	*piː, *biːʔ
狴	*piː
悂	*piː, *pʰi
螕	*piː
鎞	*piː
蓖	*piː
篦	*piː, *bis
批	*pʰiː
砒	*pʰiː
鈚	*pʰiː, *bi
磇	*pʰiː
媲	*pʰiːs
笓	*biː
膍	*biː, *bi
陛	*biːʔ
仳	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *bi, *briʔ
吡	*pʰeʔ, *piʔ, *biɡ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ
比	*piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ
妣	*piʔ, *pis
秕	*piʔ
沘	*piʔ, *bi
枇	*piʔ, *bi, *bis
粊	*pris
庇	*pis
屁	*pʰis
琵	*bi
毗	*bi
貔	*bi
豼	*bi
蚍	*bi
芘	*bi, *bis
肶	*bi
魮	*bi
阰	*bi
坒	*bis, *biɡ
玭	*bin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bi) : semantic 豸 + phonetic 𣬉 ().

Etymology

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan དབྱི (dbyi, “lynx”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 貔

1. ^† panther-like feline

   • 實墉實壑，實畝實籍，獻其貔皮，赤豹黃羆。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     实墉实壑，实亩实籍，献其貔皮，赤豹黄罴。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shí yōng shí hè, shí mǔ shí jí, xiàn qí pí pí, chì bào huáng pí. [Pinyin]

     Making strong his walls, and deep his moats,
     Laying out his fields, regulating his revenues,
     Presenting his skins of the white fox,
     With those of the red panther and the yellow grisly bear.

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Japanese

Kanji

貔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. brave heraldic beast

Readings

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)

Compounds

• 貔(ヒ)貅(キュウ) (Hikyū, “Pixiu”)

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Korean

Hanja

貔 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. fox, leopard, panther

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 貔 (tì)

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