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走狗

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Chinese

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to walk; to go; to move
to walk; to go; to move; to leave
 
 dog
simp. and trad.
(走狗) 		走 狗
Literally: “running dog”.
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Etymology

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Attestable in pre-Qin texts in the "hunting dog" sense.[1]

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 走 狗
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 子苟切 古厚切
Baxter tsuwX kuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡səuX/ /kəuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡səuX/ /kəuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡səuX/ /kəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡səwX/ /kəwX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡suX/ /kuX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡səuX/ /kəuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sə̯uX/ /kə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zǒu gǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zau2 gau2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 走 狗
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zǒu gǒu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsuwX › ‹ kuwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ts]ˁoʔ/ /*Cə.kˁroʔ/
English run dog

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 走 狗
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 17906 7068
Phonetic
component 		走 句
Rime
group 		侯 侯
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		走 苟
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsoːʔ/ /*koːʔ/

Noun

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走狗

  1. (literary) hunting dog; hound
  2. (literary, historical) dog racing game in ancient times
  3. (figurative, politics, derogatory) running dog; lackey; cat's paw; person subservient to counterrevolutionary or evil interests
    資本家的走狗／资本家的走狗  ―  zīběnjiā de zǒugǒu  ―  running dog of capitalists
  4. (literary, humble) self-deprecating form of address for oneself; the servant me; I, the follower

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • → English: running dog (calque)

Verb

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走狗

  1. (literary) to make a dog run or hunt

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ 文若愚 (2014), 语言常识全知道, 中国华侨出版社

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
走 狗
そう
Grade: 2 		く
Hyōgai
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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走(そう)狗(く) • (sōku) 

  1. hound
  2. a tool of another person, cat's paw
    • 1929, 小林多喜二, 不在地主:
      警(けい)察(さつ)は如何(いか)にも君(きみ)等(ら)の言(い)う通(とお)り、資(し)本(ほん)家(か)の走(そう)狗(く)だ。
      Keisatsu wa ika ni mo kimi-ra no iu-tōri, shihonka no sōku da.
      Like you all said, those police are nothing more than capitalist tools.

References

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  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term
走狗

Noun

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走狗 • (jugu) (hangeul 주구)

  1. hanja form? of 주구 (“hunting dog, cat's paw”)
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