# 貍

| 貍 | U+8C8D, &#35981; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C8D |
| ← 貌 [U+8C8C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 貎 → [U+8C8E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

貍 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月竹田土 (BHWG), four-corner 2621$_4$, composition ⿰豸里)
* a fox-like animal

#### Usage notes

This character is used in words for animals such as civets and the mongoose.

#### Derived characters

* 𬥋, 薶, 𥵷, 霾, 𩯬, 㦟

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1201, character 25
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36561
* Dae Jaweon: page 1663, character 22
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3912, character 12
* Unihan data for U+8C8D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 貍
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 埋 | *mrɯː |
| 霾 | *mrɯː |
| 薶 | *mrɯː |
| 榸 | *ʔr'ɯː |
| 厘 | *rɯ |
| 狸 | *rɯ |
| 貍 | *p·rɯ |
| 梩 | *rɯ |
| 艃 | *rɯ |
| 里 | *rɯʔ |
| 理 | *rɯʔ |
| 鯉 | *rɯʔ |
| 俚 | *rɯʔ |
| 悝 | *rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː |
| 娌 | *rɯʔ |
| 裏 | *rɯʔ |
| 荲 | *r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *p·rɯ) : phonetic 里 (OC *rɯʔ) + semantic 豸.

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 貍 – see 狸 (“leopard cat; raccoon dog; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 狸).

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lí (li$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lei$^4$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$li
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lí
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lí
*** Wade–Giles: li$^2$
*** Yale: lí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
*** Palladius: ли (li)
*** Sinological IPA : /li³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lei$^4$
*** Yale: lèih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lei$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: léi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lei̯²¹/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$li
*** MiniDict: li$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$li
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /li²³/
* Middle Chinese: li
Rime :
| Character | 貍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 里之切 |
| Baxter | li |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /lɨ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lɨ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /lie/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lɨ/ |
| Li Rong | /liə/ |
| Wang Li | /lĭə/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /li/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lei$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*p.rə/
    (Zhengzhang): /*p·rɯ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 貍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ li › |
| Old Chinese | /*p.rə/ |
| English | kind of wild cat |
| 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 | 貍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7823 |
| Phonetic component | 里 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 釐 |
| Old Chinese | /*p·rɯ/ |

#### Definitions

貍
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## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: り (ri)
* Kan-on: り (ri)
* Kun: たぬき (tanuki, 貍)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 貍
* たぬき Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 貍 – see the following entry. :
| 【狸たぬき】H | [noun] a raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides [noun] (figurative) a person who pretends to be good but in fact is cunning (compare English sly fox) [noun] Short for 狸饂飩 (tanuki-udon) and 狸蕎麦 (tanuki-soba): styles of various noodle dishes [noun] (rare) Short for 狸寝入り (tanuki neiri): pretending to be asleep [noun] (rare, obsolete) Short for 狸汁 (tanuki-jiru): a soup made from tanuki meat mixed with daikon, burdock root, etc. Alternative spelling タヌキ |
(This term, 貍, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

貍 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)
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