饕

饕 U+9955, 饕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9955 ← 饔 [U+9954] CJK Unified Ideographs 饖 → [U+9956]

Translingual

Han character

饕 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+13, 22 strokes, cangjie input 口弓人戈女 (RNOIV) or 口山人戈女 (RUOIV), four-corner 6173₂, composition ⿱號食)

1. gluttonous, greedy, covetous

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1426, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44426
• Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4476, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9955

Chinese

trad.		饕
simp. #		饕
alternative forms		𧈐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
饕	*l̥ʰaːw
號	*ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws
号	*ɦlaːws
枵	*hraw
呺	*hraw
鴞	*ɦraw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰaːw) : phonetic 號 (OC *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws) + semantic 食 (“food”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tao
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao¹
    • Yale: tāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
    • Palladius: тао (tao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou¹
    • Yale: tōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
    • Tâi-lô: tho
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰo⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: thaw

Rime
Character	饕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	土刀切
Baxter	thaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaw/
Li Rong	/tʰɑu/
Wang Li	/tʰɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tʰ]ˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	饕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tāo
Middle Chinese	‹ thaw ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]ˁaw/
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	饕
Reading #	1/1
No.	4915
Phonetic component	号
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	饕
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːw/

Definitions

饕

1. (literary) gluttonous; greedy; covetous

   • 不仁之人，決性命之情而饕富貴。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不仁之人，决性命之情而饕富贵。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Bùrén zhī rén, jué xìngmìng zhī qíng ér tāo fùguì. [Pinyin]

     While those who are not benevolent, having violently altered the character of their proper nature, greedily pursue after riches and honours.

2. Used in 饕餮 (tāotiè).

Compounds

• 老饕 (lǎotāo)
• 雪虐風饕／雪虐风饕
• 饕口饞舌／饕口馋舌
• 饕家
• 饕戾
• 饕餮 (tāotiè)
• 饕餮之徒
• 饕餮紋／饕餮纹
• 饕饗／饕飨

 

Japanese

Kanji

饕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)
• Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)

Korean

Hanja

饕 (eum 도 (do))

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Vietnamese

Han character

饕: Hán Nôm readings: thao

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