# 貅

| 貅 | U+8C85, &#35973; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C85 |
| ← 貄 [U+8C84] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 貆 → [U+8C86] |

## Translingual
### Han character

貅 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月竹人木 (BHOD), four-corner 2429$_0$, composition ⿰豸休)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1201, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36542
* Dae Jaweon: page 1663, character 7
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3911, character 6
* Unihan data for U+8C85

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 茠 | *qʰuː |
| 烋 | *qʰruː, *qʰru |
| 恘 | *kʰu |
| 休 | *qʰu |
| 貅 | *qʰu |
| 咻 | *qʰu, *qʰoʔ |
| 庥 | *qʰu |
| 鵂 | *qʰu |
| 髤 | *qʰu |
| 髹 | *qʰu |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰu): semantic 豸 + phonetic 休 (OC *qʰu).

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xiū (xiu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jau$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hiu$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hiu
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hiun$^1$ / hiu$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$shieu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xiū
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: siou
*** Wade–Giles: hsiu$^1$
*** Yale: syōu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiou
*** Palladius: сю (sju)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jau$^1$
*** Yale: yāu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jau$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yeo$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɐu̯⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hiu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hiu⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiu
*** Tâi-lô: hiu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hiw
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hiu⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hiu³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiu⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hiu⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiu⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: hiun$^1$ / hiu$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiuⁿ / hiu
*** Sinological IPA : /hĩũ³³/, /hiu³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$shieu
*** MiniDict: shieu$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$xieu
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕiɤ⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: xjuw
Rime :
| Character | 貅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 許尤切 |
| Baxter | xjuw |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hɨu/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hiu/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xiəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /huw/ |
| Li Rong | /xiu/ |
| Wang Li | /xĭəu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /xi̯ə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiū |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jau$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰu/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 貅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13920 |
| Phonetic component | 休 |
| Rime group | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 休 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰu/ |

### Definitions

貅
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chinese mythology) female panther-like feline; female counterpart of 貔 (pí)
    From: 1917, 徐珂 (Xu Ke), 《清稗類鈔》 (Categorized anthology of petty matters from the Qing period).
    Píxiū, xíng sì hǔ, huò yuē sì xióng, máo sè huībái. Liáodōng rén wèi zhī báipí. Xióngzhě yuē pí, cízhě yuē xiū, gù gǔrén duō lián jǔ zhī. [Pinyin]
    The pixiu: they look like tigers; some say they look like bears; their furs are colored ashen white. People in Liaodong call them white brown bears. The male is called pí, and the female xiū; that was why ancient people many times mentioned them together.

### Compounds

* 貔貅 (píxiū)

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “貅”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* brave heraldic beast

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): きゅう (kyū)

## Korean
### Hanja

貅 • (hyu) (hangeul 휴, revised hyu, McCune–Reischauer hyu, Yale hyu)
* brave, fierce, courageous

## Vietnamese
### Han character

貅: Hán Nôm readings: hươu, hưu
* deer (hươu)
* pixiu 貔貅 (tỳ hưu)