# 投畀豺虎
## Chinese

| | | to throw; to send | confer on; give to | dhole and tiger; jackal; ruthless and conniving person |
| trad. (投畀豺虎) | trad. (投畀豺虎) | 投 | 畀 | 豺虎 |
| simp. $^#$(投畀豺虎) | simp. $^#$(投畀豺虎) | 投 | 畀 | 豺虎 |
| Literally: “to throw to the dholes and tigers”. |||||

### Etymology

From Shijing:
    取彼譖人，投畀豺虎。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]取彼谮人，投畀豺虎。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's versionQǔ bǐ zènrén, tóu bì cháihǔ. [Pinyin]I would take those slanderers, And throw them to dholes and tigers.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tóubìcháihǔ
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˊ ㄅㄧˋ ㄔㄞˊ ㄏㄨˇ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tóubìcháihǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ ㄅㄧˋ ㄔㄞˊ ㄏㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tóubìcháihǔ
*** Wade–Giles: tʻou$^2$-pi$^4$-chʻai$^2$-hu$^3$
*** Yale: tóu-bì-chái-hǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tourbihchairhuu
*** Palladius: тоубичайху (toubičajxu)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰoʊ̯³⁵ pi⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰaɪ̯³⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Middle Chinese: duw pjijH dzreaj xuX
Rime :
| Character | 投 | 畀 | 豺 | 虎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 幫 (1) | 崇 (20) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) | 脂 (15) | 皆 (33) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | III | II | I |
| Fanqie | 度侯切 | 必至切 | 士皆切 | 呼古切 |
| Baxter | duw | pjijH | dzreaj | xuX |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /dəu/ | /piɪ$^H$/ | /d͡ʒˠɛi/ | /huo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /dəu/ | /pi$^H$/ | /ɖ͡ʐᵚæi/ | /huo$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /dəu/ | /pjɪ$^H$/ | /d͡ʒɐi/ | /xo$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dəw/ | /pi$^H$/ | /ɖ͡ʐəɨj/ | /hɔ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /du/ | /pi$^H$/ | /d͡ʒɛi/ | /xo$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /dəu/ | /pi$^H$/ | /d͡ʒɐi/ | /xu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /dʱə̯u/ | /pi$^H$/ | /ɖ͡ʐʱăi/ | /xuo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tóu | bì | chái | hǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | tau$^4$ | bei$^3$ | caai$^4$ | fu$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤo pi[t]-s [dz]ˤrə qʰˤraʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*doː pids zrɯː qʰlaːʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 投 | 畀 | 豺 | 虎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | tóu | bì | chái | hǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ duw › | ‹ pjij$^H$ › | ‹ dzreaj › | ‹ xu$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]ˁo/ | /*pi[t]-s/ | /*[dz]ˁrə/ | /*qʰˁraʔ/ (W dialect: *qˁʰr- >r̥ˁ- > x-) |
| English | throw | give | wolf | tiger |
| 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 | 投 | 畀 | 豺 | 虎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 11716 | 606 | 1066 | 5230 |
| Phonetic component | 殳 | 畀 | 才 | 虍 |
| Rime group | 侯 | 至 | 之 | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 頭 | 痹 | 豺 | 虎 |
| Old Chinese | /*doː/ | /*pids/ | /*zrɯː/ | /*qʰlaːʔ/ |

### Idiom

投畀豺虎
* to be deeply resentful against evildoers (especially slanderers)