畋獵

Chinese

		cultivate (land); to hunt	hunting
trad. (畋獵)		畋	獵
simp. (畋猎)		畋	猎
alternative forms		田獵／田猎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiánliè

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴ lip⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiánliè
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiánliè
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien²-lieh⁴
    • Yale: tyán-lyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyanlieh
    • Palladius: тяньле (tjanʹle)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ li̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin⁴ lip⁶
    • Yale: tìhn lihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴ lip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴ lib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹ liːp̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: den ljep

Rime
Character	畋	獵
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	葉 (155)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	徒年切	良涉切
Baxter	den	ljep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/den/	/liᴇp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/den/	/liɛp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛn/	/ljæp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛn/	/liap̚/
Li Rong	/den/	/liɛp̚/
Wang Li	/dien/	/lĭɛp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱien/	/li̯ɛp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tián	liè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tin4	lip6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤiŋ  r[a]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːŋ  rab/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	畋	獵
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tián	liè
Middle Chinese	‹ den ›	‹ ljep ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁiŋ/	/*r[a]p/
English	hunt	hunt
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	畋	獵
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	12394	8150
Phonetic component	田	巤
Rime group	眞	盍
Rime subdivision	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	田	獵
Old Chinese	/*l'iːŋ/	/*rab/

Verb

畋獵

1. (literary) to hunt (wild animals)

Synonyms

• 打坡 (Luoyang)
• 打牲 (Xinzhou)
• 打獵／打猎 (dǎliè)
• 拍獵／拍猎 (Min)
• 捕獵／捕猎 (bǔliè)
• 攆山／撵山 (nyian³ san¹) (Sichuanese)
• 狩獵／狩猎 (shòuliè) (formal)
• 獵取／猎取 (lièqǔ)
• 趕山／赶山 (gan³ san¹) (Xiang)