# 餮

| 餮 | U+992E, &#39214; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-992E |
| ← 餭 [U+992D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 餯 → [U+992F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

餮 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 一竹人戈女 (MHOIV), four-corner 1873$_2$, composition ⿱殄食)
* a legendary animal
* a greedy person

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1422, character 39
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44268
* Dae Jaweon: page 1948, character 24
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4464, character 2
* Unihan data for U+992E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 沴 | *rɯːls |
| 趁 | *nlanʔ, *l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn |
| 紾 | *ʔl'anʔ, *kljɯnʔ |
| 跈 | *nlɯːnʔ, *l'ɯːnʔ |
| 殄 | *l'ɯːnʔ |
| 抮 | *hlɯːnʔ |
| 駗 | *rɯn, *kljɯnʔ |
| 珍 | *ʔl'ɯn |
| 診 | *l'ɯns, *kljɯnʔ |
| 畛 | *kljɯn, *kljɯnʔ |
| 疹 | *kljɯnʔ |
| 軫 | *kljɯnʔ |
| 胗 | *kljɯnʔ, *klɯnʔ |
| 袗 | *kljɯnʔ, *kljɯns |
| 眕 | *kljɯnʔ |
| 飻 | *l̥ʰɯːd |
| 餮 | *r̥ʰɯːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *r̥ʰɯːd) : phonetic 殄 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + semantic 食 (“food”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tiè (tie$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tit$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tiè
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tiè
*** Wade–Giles: tʻieh$^4$
*** Yale: tyè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tieh
*** Palladius: те (te)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tit$^3$
*** Yale: tit
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tit$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tid$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰiːt̚³/
* Middle Chinese: thet
Rime :
| Character | 餮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 透 (6) |
| Final (韻) | 屑 (87) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 他結切 |
| Baxter | thet |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /tʰet̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /tʰet̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /tʰɛt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /tʰɛt̚/ |
| Li Rong | /tʰet̚/ |
| Wang Li | /tʰiet̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /tʰiet̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tie |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | tit$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tʰ]ˤət/
    (Zhengzhang): /*r̥ʰɯːd/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 餮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | tiè |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ thet › |
| Old Chinese | /*[tʰ]ˁət/ |
| 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 | 餮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17108 |
| Phonetic component | 疹 |
| Rime group | 物 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鐵 |
| Old Chinese | /*r̥ʰɯːd/ |
| Notes | 說文作飻 |

### Definitions

餮
* (literary) gluttonous; greedy
* Used in 饕餮 (tāotiè).
* Used in 餮切.

### Compounds

* 貪餮／贪餮
* 餮切
* 饕餮 (tāotiè)
* 饕餮之徒
* 饕餮紋／饕餮纹

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): てつ (tetsu)、てん (ten)、でん (den)

## Korean
### Hanja

餮 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

餮: Hán Việt readings: thiết
餮: Nôm readings: thiết
* chữ Hán form of thiết (“thao thiết (饕餮), a gluttonous monster from Chinese legend”).

### References

* ↑ Nguyễn (1974).
* ↑ Thiều Chửu (1942).
* ↑ Trần (2004).