餮

Translingual

Han character

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

餮 (Yale tit3)

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Japanese

Kanji

餮

Readings

• On: てつ (tetsu), てん (ten), でん (den)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

餮 (pinyin tiè (tie4), Wade-Giles t'ieh⁴)

Compounds

• 饕餮

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Vietnamese

Han character

餮 (thiết)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 16:25