犛

犛 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十大一竹手 (JKMHQ), four-corner 5825₁, composition ⿸𠩺牛)

1. a black ox, a yak
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №20

• KangXi: page 704, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20154
• Dae Jaweon: page 1116, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1818, character 5
• Unihan data for U+729B

Attested earliest possibly in Discourses of the States:

• 不然，巴浦之犀、犛、兕、象，其可盡乎，其又以規為瑱也？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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  不然，巴浦之犀、牦、兕、象，其可尽乎，其又以规为瑱也？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

  From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE

  Bùrán, Bā Pǔ zhī xī, máo/lí, sì, xiàng, qí kě jìn hū, qí yòu yǐ guī wéi tiàn yě? [Pinyin]

  ‘Otherwise, it is because rhinoceros, yaks, wild bovids and elephants in Ba and Pu have become extinct, and for this reason you use my recommendations as earplugs (which are made from the bones of these exotic animals)?’

It is either related to or borrowed from Tibetan འབྲི ('bri, “female yak”) (Schuessler, 2007).

犛

1. yak

   • 獸則庸獏牦犛，沈牛麈麋，赤首圜題，窮奇象犀。 [MSC, trad.]
     兽则庸獏牦牦，沈牛麈麋，赤首圜题，穷奇象犀。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 司馬相如 (Sima Xiangru) 《上林賦》 "Rhapsody on the Imperial Park", in 《史記》 Records of the Grand Historians. Translated based on Knechtges's (2008) version

     Shòu zé yōng mò máo lí, shěnniú zhǔmí, chìshǒu yuántí, qióngqí xiàng xī. [Pinyin]

     Its animals are: The zebus, pandas, hairy yak bulls, grunting yak cows, plunging bulls, elaphures; red-headed, round-hoofed; extreme extraordinaire, elephants, and rhinoceroses.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02504
• “犛”, 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–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: らい (rai); り (ri)
• Kan-on: り (ri); れい (rei)
• Kun: からうし (karaushi)

犛: Hán Nôm readings: li, mao

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