# 猵

| 猵 | U+7335, &#29493; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7335 |
| ← 猴 [U+7334] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 猶 → [U+7336] |

## Translingual
### Han character

猵 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大竹竹尸月 (KHHSB) or 大竹戈尸月 (KHISB), four-corner 4322$_7$, composition ⿰犭扁)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 715, character 19
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20556
* Dae Jaweon: page 1127, character 15
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1360, character 5
* Unihan data for U+7335

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 斒 | *preːn, *praːn |
| 鯿 | *praːn, *pen |
| 編 | *pen, *peːn, *peːnʔ |
| 揙 | *pen |
| 褊 | *penʔ |
| 篇 | *pʰen |
| 偏 | *pʰen, *pʰens |
| 翩 | *pʰen |
| 媥 | *pʰen |
| 扁 | *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ |
| 萹 | *pʰen, *peːn, *peːnʔ |
| 騗 | *pʰens |
| 騙 | *pʰens |
| 諞 | *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ |
| 楄 | *ben, *beːn |
| 蝙 | *peːn |
| 甂 | *peːn |
| 猵 | *peːn, *binʔ |
| 牑 | *peːn |
| 蹁 | *peːn, *beːn |
| 匾 | *peːnʔ |
| 碥 | *peːnʔ |
| 惼 | *peːnʔ |
| 糄 | *peːnʔ |
| 徧 | *peːns |
| 遍 | *peːns |
| 頨 | *peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan |
| 艑 | *beːnʔ |

### Etymology

Peiros & Starostin (1996) (apud Schuessler, 2007) compares this to Burmese ဖျံ (hpyam, “otter”). STEDT provisionally reconstructs Proto-Tibeto-Burman *phyam (“otter”) & compares Chinese & Burmese words to Chak [Term?] (phaing) and Marma [script needed] (phaing).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): biān (bian$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bin$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: biān
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bian
*** Wade–Giles: pien$^1$
*** Yale: byān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bian
*** Palladius: бянь (bjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bin$^1$
*** Yale: bīn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bin$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bin$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /piːn⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: pen, bjinX
Rime :
| Character | 猵 | 猵 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | IV | III |
| Fanqie | 布玄切 | 毗忍切 |
| Baxter | pen | bjinX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pen/ | /biɪn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /pen/ | /bin$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /pɛn/ | /bjen$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /pɛn/ | /bin$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /pen/ | /biĕn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /pien/ | /bĭĕn$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /pien/ | /bʱi̯ĕn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | biān | bìn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bin$^1$ | ban$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*peːn/, /*binʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 猵 | 猵 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 727 | 746 |
| Phonetic component | 扁 | 扁 |
| Rime group | 元 | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 邊 | 牝 |
| Old Chinese | /*peːn/ | /*binʔ/ |

### Definitions

猵
* otter
    From: Huainanzi, 2nd century BCE
    Fū xù chíyú zhě bì qù biāntǎ, yǎng qínshòu zhě bì qù cháiláng, yòu kuàng zhì rén hū! [Pinyin]
    One who raises fish in ponds needs to fend off otters; one who rears fowls and livestock needs to fend off dholes and wolves; let alone more to govern people!

#### Synonyms

(otter): 獺／獭 (tǎ)

#### Compounds

* 猵狙
* 猵獺／猵獭

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): へん (hen)、ひん (hin)、びん (bin)