餮

餮 U+992E, 餮
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 18732, composition ⿱殄食)

  1. a legendary animal
  2. a greedy person

References
  • KangXi: 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
trad. 餮
simp. # 餮
alternative forms 飻
𩚸
𩚝
𩚺

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (疹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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, OC *r̥ʰɯːd) : phonetic 殄 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + semantic 食 (“food”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 餮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 先 (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 他結切
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		 tit3
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

  1. (literary) gluttonous; greedy
  2. Used in 饕餮 (tāotiè).
  3. Used in 餮切.

Compounds
  • 饕餮之徒
  • 貪餮／贪餮
  • 饕餮紋／饕餮纹

Japanese

Kanji
餮

(uncommon “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[1][2]
餮: Nôm readings: thiết[3]

  1. chữ Hán form of thiết (“thao thiết (饕餮), a gluttonous monster from Chinese legend”).

References
  1. Nguyễn (1974).
  2. Thiều Chửu (1942).
  3. Trần (2004).
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