餮

餮 U+992E, 餮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-992E ← 餭 [U+992D] CJK Unified Ideographs 餯 → [U+992F]

Translingual

Han character

餮 (radical 184 食+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 一竹人戈女 (MHOIV), four-corner 1873₂, composition ⿱殄食)

1. a legendary animal
2. a greedy person

References

• KangXi: page 1422, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44268
• Dae Jaweon: page 1948, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4464, character 2
• Unihan data for U+992E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		餮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
沴	*rɯːls
趁	*nlanʔ, *l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
紾	*ʔl'anʔ, *kljɯnʔ
跈	*nlɯːnʔ, *l'ɯːnʔ
殄	*l'ɯːnʔ
抮	*hlɯːnʔ
駗	*rɯn, *kljɯnʔ
珍	*ʔl'ɯn
診	*l'ɯns, *kljɯnʔ
畛	*kljɯn, *kljɯnʔ
疹	*kljɯnʔ
軫	*kljɯnʔ
胗	*kljɯnʔ, *klɯnʔ
袗	*kljɯnʔ, *kljɯns
眕	*kljɯnʔ
飻	*l̥ʰɯːd
餮	*r̥ʰɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *r̥ʰɯːd): phonetic 殄 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + semantic 食 (“food”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiè (tie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tit³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tieh
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tit³
    • Yale: tit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: tid³
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰiːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰet̚/▼

Rime
Character	餮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	他結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛt̚/
Li Rong	/tʰet̚/
Wang Li	/tʰiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tie

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[tʰ]ˤət/

  (Zhengzhang): /*r̥ʰɯːd/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	餮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tiè
Middle Chinese	‹ thet ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]ˤət/
English	饕餮 thaw.thet glutton
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	餮
Reading #	1/1
No.	17108
Phonetic component	疹
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鐵
Old Chinese	/*r̥ʰɯːd/
Notes	說文作飻

Definitions

餮

1. Only used in 饕餮 (tāotiè).

Compounds

• 饕餮 (tāotiè)

• 饕餮之徒

• 饕餮紋／饕餮纹

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Japanese

Kanji

餮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てつ (tetsu), てん (ten), でん (den)

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Korean

Hanja

餮 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

餮 (thiết)

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