豭

豭 U+8C6D, 豭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C6D
← 豬
[U+8C6C]
CJK Unified Ideographs 豮 →
[U+8C6E]

Translingual

Han character

豭 (Kangxi radical 152, 豕+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一人口尸水 (MORSE), four-corner 17247, composition ⿰豕叚)

References

  • KangXi: page 1198, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36435
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1660, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3618, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+8C6D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
豭
alternative forms 猳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 豭
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kraː) : semantic 豕 + phonetic 叚 (OC *kraːʔ).

Derivative: 家 (“home”).

Etymology

Wang (1982) relates this word to 羖 (OC *klaːʔ, “(black) ram”), 牯 (OC *kaːʔ, “male bovine”) and 麚 (OC *kraː, “stag”); thus, this word is likely a general word for “male animal”. However, Schuessler (2007) considers 牯 (OC *kaːʔ) to be a post-classical loanword from Austroasiatic, and 羖 (OC *klaːʔ) a cognate to 羯 (OC *kad, “wether”). See these entries for more.

The common word for “pig” in most modern varieties of Chinese, 豬 (OC *ta), is likely a derivative. See there for more.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 豭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古牙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠa/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/ka/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨ/
Li
Rong
/ka/
Wang
Li
/ka/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ka/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiā
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gaa1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 豭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiā
Middle
Chinese
‹ kae ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁra/
English boar

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 豭
Reading # 1/1
No. 5951
Phonetic
component
叚
Rime
group
魚
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
嘉
Old
Chinese
/*kraː/

Definitions

豭

  1. boar; male pig
  2. (in general) pig

Synonyms

Compounds

  • 艾豭

Japanese

Kanji

豭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. boar
  2. male pig

Readings

  • On (unclassified): か (ka), け (ke)
  • Kun: おすのいのこ (osunoinoko)

Korean

Hanja

豭 • (ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune–Reischauer ka)

  1. a (male) hog
  2. a boar
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