# 鼪

| 鼪 | U+9F2A, &#40746; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F2A |
| ← 鼩 [U+9F29] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鼫 → [U+9F2B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鼪 (Kangxi radical 208, 鼠+5, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹女竹手一 (HVHQM), four-corner 7571$_1$, composition ⿰鼠生)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1528, character 11
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48423
* Dae Jaweon: page 2064, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4774, character 2
* Unihan data for U+9F2A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 猜 | *sʰlɯː |
| 輤 | *sʰleːns |
| 綪 | *sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ |
| 倩 | *sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs |
| 棈 | *sʰleːns |
| 蒨 | *sʰeːns |
| 篟 | *sʰeːns |
| 生 | *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs |
| 牲 | *sreŋ |
| 笙 | *sreŋ |
| 甥 | *sreŋ |
| 鉎 | *sreŋ, *sleːŋ |
| 珄 | *sreŋ |
| 鼪 | *sreŋ, *sreŋs |
| 猩 | *sreŋ, *seːŋ |
| 狌 | *sreŋ |
| 眚 | *sreŋʔ |
| 貹 | *sreŋs |
| 崝 | *zreːŋ |
| 精 | *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs |
| 菁 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 鶄 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
| 蜻 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
| 鼱 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 婧 | *ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ |
| 睛 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ |
| 箐 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 聙 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 旌 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 清 | *sʰleŋ |
| 圊 | *sʰleŋ |
| 請 | *sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ |
| 凊 | *sʰleŋs |
| 䝼 | *zleŋs, *zleŋ |
| 靚 | *zleŋs |
| 情 | *zleŋ |
| 晴 | *zleŋ |
| 夝 | *zleŋ |
| 靜 | *zleŋʔ |
| 靖 | *zleŋʔ |
| 睲 | *seŋʔ, *seːŋs |
| 惺 | *seŋʔ, *seːŋ |
| 性 | *sleŋs |
| 姓 | *sleŋs |
| 靗 | *l̥ʰeŋs |
| 鯖 | *ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
| 青 | *sʰleːŋ |
| 靘 | *sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs |
| 掅 | *sʰleːŋs |
| 胜 | *sleːŋ |
| 曐 | *sleːŋ |
| 星 | *sleːŋ |
| 鮏 | *sleːŋ |
| 腥 | *seːŋ, *seːŋs |
| 鯹 | *seːŋ |
| 醒 | *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs |
| 篂 | *seːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sreŋ, *sreŋs): semantic 鼠 (“mouse; rat”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs).

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-(l/r)e(j/ŋ) (“squirrel, weasel”) (STEDT). Within Chinese, it may be related to 狸 (OC *rɯ) (however, see there for more).
Compare Tibetan སྲེ་མོང (sre mong, “weasel”), Burmese ရှဉ့် (hrany., “squirrel”), Lepcha [script needed] (să-myóŋ, “marmot”), Karbi [Term?] (iŋren, “mongoose”) (< *m-ren), Proto-Karen *hliᴮ (Benedict, 1972; Handel, 2009; Schuessler, 2007, 2009; STEDT). Hill (2019) disputes the Tibetan comparison on phonetic grounds.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shēng (sheng$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sang$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): seng$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): seng
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shēng
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sheng
*** Wade–Giles: shêng$^1$
*** Yale: shēng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheng
*** Palladius: шэн (šɛn)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sang$^1$
*** Yale: sāng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sang$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: seng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐŋ⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: seng$^1$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seng
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬɛŋ⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng
*** Tâi-lô: sing
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sefng
*** IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: sraeng, sraengH
Rime :
| Character | 鼪 | 鼪 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 生 (21) | 生 (21) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (109) | 庚 (109) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | II | II |
| Fanqie | 所庚切 | 所敬切 |
| Baxter | sraeng | sraengH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʃˠæŋ/ | /ʃˠæŋ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʃᵚaŋ/ | /ʃᵚaŋ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʃaŋ/ | /ʃaŋ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʂaɨjŋ/ | /ʂaɨjŋ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʃɐŋ/ | /ʃɐŋ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ʃɐŋ/ | /ʃɐŋ$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʂɐŋ/ | /ʂɐŋ$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shēng | shèng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sang$^1$ | sang$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sreŋ/, /*sreŋs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 鼪 | 鼪 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 11318 | 11324 |
| Phonetic component | 生 | 生 |
| Rime group | 耕 | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 生 | 生 |
| Old Chinese | /*sreŋ/ | /*sreŋs/ |
| Notes | 見莊子 | 見莊子 |

### Definitions

鼪
* (literary) Siberian weasel
    From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
    Zǐ dú bù jiàn lí shēng hū? [Pinyin]
    Have you not seen a wildcat or a weasel?
    From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
    lídiào zhǔ hū shēngyòu zhī jìng...... [Pinyin]
    Goosefeet and elderberries block the weasels’ path [...]

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 鼬, 鼪 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 黃鼬 |
| Taxonomic name | Taxonomic name | 黃鼬 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 黃鼠狼 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 黃鼠狼 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Langfang | 黃狼子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Chengde | 黃鼠狼子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Ulanhot | 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Tongliao | 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Chifeng | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼠狼子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Hulunbuir (Hailar) | 黃貔子, 黃鼬, 黃三太爺 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Heihe | 黃鼠狼, 老黃, 黃貔子, 黃仙兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Qiqihar | 黃鼠狼, 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 黃鼠狼, 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Jiamusi | 黃鼠狼, 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Baicheng | 黃鼠狼, 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Changchun | 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Tonghua | 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Shenyang | 黃鼠狼, 黃貔子 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Jinzhou | 黃鼠狼, 黃狼子, 狼子, 黃貔子 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tianjin | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tangshan | 黃鼠狼子 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Cangzhou | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼬 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Baoding | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼬 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Shijiazhuang | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼬 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Lijin | 黃鼬 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 黃鼬, 黃鼠狼子, 黃鼠狼 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Dalian | 黃狼子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Dandong | 黃鼠狼子, 黃鼠狼, 黃貔子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai | 黃鼠狼子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 臊水浪子, 臊窠子, 黃家 honorific |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Rongcheng | 臊水狸, 臊水狼子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Qingdao | 黃鼠狼子, 臊水狼子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Qingdao (Chengyang) | 老黃 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Qingdao (Jimo) | 臊水狼子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Laixi | 水狼, 臊貔子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Pingdu | 貔子, 臊水狼子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Jiaozhou | 黃老鼠, 臊貔子 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Qingdao (Jiaonan, Huangdao) | 黃老鼠 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Zhucheng | 黃鼬子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Lingbao | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Jining | 黃鼠狼兒, 黃鼠狼子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Daming | 黃鼠狼子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 黃鼬, 臊老鼠 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong (Ronghe) | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Linfen | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Shangqiu | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Yuanyang | 懷鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Zhengzhou | 懷鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xinyang | 黃鼠狼, 黃貔子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Baihe | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Baoji | 黃鼠狼, 鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Tianshui | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 黃鼠狼子, 黃狼子, 黃貓 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Fuyang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) | 黃鼠狼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan) | 黃鼠狼 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 黃鼠狼 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Bayanhot | 黃鼠狼 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 黃鼠狼 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Dunhuang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Hami | 黃老鼠 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼠狼兒, 黃水貓兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu (Xindu) | 黃水狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu (Pidu) | 黃水狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu (Wenjiang) | 黃水狼兒, 黃水秧兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu (Shuangliu) | 黃水狼兒, 黃水秧兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu (Xinjin) | 黃水秧兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Jintang | 黃水狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Pengzhou | 黃水狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dujiangyan | 黃水狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chongzhou | 黃水狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dayi | 黃水狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Pujiang | 黃水狼子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Qionglai | 黃水狼子, 黃水狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Nanchong | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dazhou | 黃老鼠 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Hanyuan | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Xichang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zigong | 黃鼠狼, 黃舌狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chongqing | 黃鼠狼兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼠狼子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Yichang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Xiangyang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Tianmen | 黃鼠狼, 黃狼子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zunyi | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Bijie | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liping | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Zhaotong | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Dali | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Kunming | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Mengzi | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 黃鼠狼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Nanning (Wuming) | 黃鼠狼, 抓雞虎 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Jishou | 黃老鼠兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Changde | 黃老鼠 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Hanzhong | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 黃鼠狼子, 黃鼠狼, 大仙老太爺 dated, 大仙 dated, 老太爺 dated, 黃仙子 dated |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Lianyungang | 黃狼子 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Lianshui | 狼子 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nantong | 黃貓兒 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Anqing | 黃鼠狼子, 黃鼠狼, 大仙 dated |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Wuhu | 黃鼠狼子, 黃狼子 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 黃狼子 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hong'an | 黃鼠狼子, 狼子 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 黃鼠狼 |
| Cantonese | Nanning | 黃鼠狼, 抓雞虎 |
| Cantonese | Nanning (Tanka) | 抓雞虎 |
| Cantonese | Yulin | 黃鼠狼 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 黃老鼠 |
| Gan | Pengze | 黃雞狸 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 黃鼠狼 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 黃老鼠 |
| Gan | Liuyang | 黃老鼠 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 黃鼠狼 |
| Hakka | Longyan (Xiayang, Yongding) | 臊豺子 |
| Hakka | Wuping (Zhongshan) | 黃鼠狼子 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 黃鼠狼子, 黃鼠狼 |
| Hakka | Ruijin | 黃鼠狼子 |
| Hakka | Sabah (Longchuan) | 黃鼠狼 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 黃鼪 |
| Huizhou | Shexian | 黃鼪 |
| Huizhou | Fuliang | 狐狸 |
| Huizhou | Fuliang (Ehu) | 黃鼪狸兒 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 黃鼬子, 黃鼠狼 |
| Jin | Pingyao | 黃鼬 |
| Jin | Yangyuan | 黃鼬 |
| Jin | Datong | 黃猺子 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 耐猴 |
| Jin | Lüliang (Lishi) | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼬 |
| Jin | Changzhi | 黃鼠狼, 鼠狼子 |
| Jin | Taibus (Baochang) | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jin | Linhe | 黃鼬 |
| Jin | Jining | 黃鼬, 黃鼠狼 |
| Jin | Hohhot | 黃鼬 |
| Jin | Baotou | 黃鼬 |
| Jin | Dongsheng | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jin | Haibowan | 黃鼠狼兒 |
| Jin | Erenhot | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jin | Pingshan | 黃鼬 |
| Jin | Zhangjiakou | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jin | Handan | 黃鼠狼, 黃米狼子 |
| Jin | Linzhou | 黃鼠狼 |
| Jin | Suide | 黃猺 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 鼠豺仔 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 黃鼠狼, 黃鼠, 野貓, 狐狸貓, 狐狸貓母 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 赤鼠 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 赤鼠 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 赤鼠, 虎貓公 |
| Southern Min | Yongchun | 貓媌 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 鼠貓仔 |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 赤鼠, 紅猴囝 |
| Puxian Min | Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang) | 拆鼠 |
| Puxian Min | Xianyou | 鼠精番 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 黃鼠狼 |
| Waxiang | Yuanling (Shaojiwan) | 黃老鼠 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 黃狼, 黃鼠狼 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 黃鼠狼 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 黃狼, 黃鼠狼 |
| Wu | Danyang | 黃鼠狼 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 黃鼠狼兒 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 黃鼠狼 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 老鼠黃, 老鼠黃兒 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 黃鼠狼 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 黃老鼠, 黃竹筒 |
| Xiangnan Tuhua | Jiangyong | 黃鼠狼 |
| Xiangnan Tuhua | Dong'an | 黃鼠狼 |

### References

* “鼪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 604.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鼪”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 209.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* weasel

#### Readings

* Go-on: しょう (shō)
* Kan-on: しょう (shō)、せい (sei)、そう (sō)
* Kun: いたち (itachi, 鼪)、むささび (musasabi, 鼪)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 鼪
* いたち Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鼪 – see the following entry. :
| 【鼬いたち】H | [noun] weasel Alternative spellings 鼬鼠, 貂, 鼶, イタチ |
(This term, 鼪, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

鼪 • (saeng) (hangeul 생)
* weasel
* squirrel