# 饕

| 饕 | U+9955, &#39253; 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 6173$_2$, composition ⿱號食)
* 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (tao$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tou$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tho
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tao
*** Wade–Giles: tʻao$^1$
*** Yale: tāu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
*** Palladius: тао (tao)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tou$^1$
*** Yale: tōu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tou$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tou$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /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/
* 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 | tou$^1$ |
* 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
* (literary) gluttonous; greedy; covetous
    From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd 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.
* 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

(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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