# 豸

| 豸 | U+8C78, &#35960; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C78 |
| ← 豷 [U+8C77] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 豹 → [U+8C79] |
| ⾘ | U+2F98, &#12184; KANGXI RADICAL BADGER |
| ← ⾗ [U+2F97] | Kangxi Radicals | ⾙ → [U+2F99] |

## Translingual
### Han character

豸 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月尸竹竹 (BSHH), four-corner 2022$_2$, composition ⿱⿳丿⺀丿⿹㇁𰀪)
* Kangxi radical #153, ⾘.

#### Derived characters

* Appendix:Chinese radical/豸
* 𠉠, 𪡊, 𢚵, 𢭺, 𤞝, 𤉒, 𤙪, 𥍪, 絼, 𦎋, 𧋈, 𧣭, 𧼋, 𬦳
* 𭃤, 𧼌, 䫉, 𩳏, 𪁰, 𬏯
* 𭸜, 𨂼, 𤯴, 𬠸

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1199, character 36
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36496
* Dae Jaweon: page 1661, character 32
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3908, character 1
* Unihan data for U+8C78

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 豸 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Pictogram (象形) – an animal.

### Etymology

Variant of 廌 (OC dreʔ) (Guangyun; Schuessler, 2009). If true, see there for etymology.
Janhunen (2011) instead suggests that 豸 and 廌 possibly had denoted different animals, yet were confused so they would be used seemingly interchangeably to refer to the same range of vague folkloric and mythological beasts.
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “If not just a variant of 廌 (OC dreʔ), then might 豸 (OC dreʔ) be related to Tibetan དྲེད (dred, “bear”)? Old Chinese *-ʔ occasionally corresponds to Old Tibetan -d in these cognate sets: 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ) vs. Tibetan ངེད (nged, “I; we”), 靡 (OC *mralʔ) vs. Tibetan མྱེད (myed, “not exist”), etc.”

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhì (zhi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zaai$^6$ / zi$^6$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sái, chhí
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tǐ / tī / thǒa / thōa
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhì
*** Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhìh
*** Wade–Giles: chih$^4$
*** Yale: jr̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
*** Palladius: чжи (čži)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zaai$^6$ / zi$^6$
*** Yale: jaaih / jih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzaai$^6$ / dzi$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zai$^6$ / ji$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡saːi̯²²/, /t͡siː²²/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sái, chhí
*** Hakka Romanization System: sai$^ˋ$, qi$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: sai$^3$, qi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /sai̯³¹ t͡sʰi³¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǐ
*** Tâi-lô: tǐ
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ti²²/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī
*** Tâi-lô: tī
*** Phofsit Daibuun: di
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ti²²/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thǒa
*** Tâi-lô: thuǎ
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰua²²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thōa
*** Tâi-lô: thuā
*** Phofsit Daibuun: toa
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰua²²/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰua³³/
* tǐ/tī - literary;
* thǒa/thōa - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: drjeX, dreaX
Rime :
| Character | 豸 | 豸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (13) | 佳 (31) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | II |
| Fanqie | 池爾切 | 宅買切 |
| Baxter | drjeX | dreaX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɖˠiᴇ$^X$/ | /ɖˠɛ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɖᵚiɛ$^X$/ | /ɖᵚæ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȡiɛ$^X$/ | /ȡæi$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɖjiə̆$^X$/ | /ɖaɨj$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ȡje$^X$/ | /ȡɛ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ȡǐe$^X$/ | /ȡai$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ȡʱie̯$^X$/ | /ȡʱai$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhì | zhài |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^6$ | zaai$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤreʔ/, /*[d]reʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*rdeːʔ/, /*deʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 豸 | 豸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhì | zhì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ drea$^X$ › | ‹ drje$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]ˁreʔ/ | /*[d]reʔ/ |
| English | to crouch (before catching prey) | bug, wug |
| 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 | 豸 | 豸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 17375 | 17376 |
| Phonetic component | 豸 | 豸 |
| Rime group | 支 | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 廌 | 豸 |
| Old Chinese | /*rdeːʔ/ | /*deʔ/ |

### Definitions

豸
* beast with long vertebral column
* legless insect
* Used in 獬豸 (xièzhì).
* (obsolete) to solve, solution
    From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE
    Yú jiāng lǎo, shǐ xìzǐ chěng qí zhì, shù yǒu zhì hū? [Pinyin]
    I will declare myself too old, and let Master Xi achieve his wish, which may perhaps lead to the solution [to the present evil]?

### Compounds

* 此豸 (cǐzhì)
* 獬豸 (xièzhì)
* 獬豸冠
* 蟲豸／虫豸 (chóngzhì)
* 豸冠
* 貏豸 (bǐzhì)

#### References

* (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ち (chi)、たい (tai)
* Kun: とける (tokeru)、ゆるめる (yurumeru)

## Korean
### Hanja

豸 • (chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune–Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

豸: Hán Nôm readings: trại, chạy, giải, giãi, trải, trãi, trễ, chải, giại, sải, trĩ
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