熊貓

See also: 熊猫

Chinese

		bear; to scold; to rebuke	cat
trad. (熊貓)		熊	貓
simp. (熊猫)		熊	猫
anagram		貓熊／猫熊

熊貓

Etymology

Literally “bear cat”, originally referring to red pandas. Displaced 貘 (mò) since Qing and Republican eras due to a misinterpretation of a chimera of the same name attributed to Bai Juyi and further transmitted by Su Song to the Compendium of Materia Medica (1596) made known to Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in 1824.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xióngmāo

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄥˊ ㄇㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung⁴ maau¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hîm-niau
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶yon-mau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xióngmāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄥˊ ㄇㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syóngmao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiung²-mao¹
    • Yale: syúng-māu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyongmhau
    • Palladius: сюнмао (sjunmao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ʊŋ³⁵ mɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (熊貓兒／熊猫儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xióngmāor
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄥˊ ㄇㄠㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syóngmaor
    • Wade–Giles: hsiung²-mao¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: syúng-māur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyongmhaul
    • Palladius: сюнмаор (sjunmaor)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ʊŋ³⁵ maʊ̯ɻʷ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung⁴ maau¹
    • Yale: hùhng māau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung⁴ maau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung⁴ mao¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ²¹ maːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hîm-niau
    • Tâi-lô: hîm-niau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: himniaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /him²⁴⁻²² niãu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /him²⁴⁻²² niãu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /him¹³⁻²² niãu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /him²⁴⁻¹¹ niãu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /him²³⁻³³ niãu⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶yon-mau
    • MiniDict: yon^去 mau
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhion-mau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦioŋ²² mɔ⁴⁴/

Noun

熊貓

1. panda (Classifier: 隻／只)

   Synonym: 貘 (mò)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 大熊貓 (“panda; giant panda”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		大熊貓, 大貓熊, 熊貓, 貓熊
Taxonomic name		大熊貓
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	熊貓兒
	Taiwan	貓熊, 大貓熊
	Singapore	貓熊
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	熊貓
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	熊貓兒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	熊貓, 大熊貓
Hakka	Wuhua (Meilin)	熊貓
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	貓熊
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	貓熊
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	貓熊
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	貓熊
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	貓熊
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	貓熊
Southern Min	Xiamen	熊貓
	Quanzhou	熊貓
	Zhangzhou	貓熊, 熊貓
	Tainan	熊貓
	Singapore (Hokkien)	貓熊
Central Min	Yong'an	熊貓
Wu	Shanghai	熊貓

Derived terms

• 大熊貓／大熊猫 (dàxióngmāo)
• 小熊貓／小熊猫 (xiǎoxióngmāo)

 

Descendants

• → Bouyei: xungfmaoy