Wiktionary

獸

See also: 獣 and 兽
獸 U+7378, 獸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7378
← 獷
[U+7377] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 獹 →
[U+7379]

Translingual edit

Traditional 獸
Shinjitai 獣
Simplified 兽

Han character edit

獸 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK) or 難口口戈大 (XRRIK), four-corner 63634, composition ⿰嘼犬)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 721, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20775
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1375, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7378

Chinese edit

trad. 獸
simp. 兽

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 獸
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (嘼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
獸 *qʰljus
嘼 *qʰlus

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 單 (“hunting weapon”) + 犬 (“dog”) – "hunting". 口 was added later (see 嘼).

Etymology edit

Exopassive of 狩 (OC *qʰljus, “to hunt”), literally "what is hunted" (Schuessler, 2007). Speculatively, 獸 (OC *qʰljus) can be compared with Tibetan འཆོར་བ ('chor ba, “to hunt”) (ibid.).

Pronunciation edit

Rime
Character 獸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舒救切
Baxter syuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕiuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕuwH/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiuH/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sau3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 獸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ syuwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s/
English (wild) animal

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 獸
Reading # 1/1
No. 11712
Phonetic
component 		嘼
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		狩
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰljus/

Definitions edit

獸

  1. beast; animal
  2. bestial
  3. furry (subculture)
    獸迷／兽迷  ―  shòumí  ―  Furry fandom

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai

獣

Kyūjitai

獸

Kanji edit

獸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 獣)

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Readings edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

獸 • (su) (hangeul 수, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Compounds edit

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

獸: Hán Nôm readings: thú

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