彘

彘	U+5F58, 彘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F58

← 彗
[U+5F57]

CJK Unified Ideographs

彙 →
[U+5F59]

Translingual

Han character

彘 (radical 58, 彐+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女一心人心 (VMPOP), four-corner 2771₁, composition ⿱彑⿲匕矢匕)

References

KangXi: page 362, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9931
Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 33
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 961, character 14
Unihan data for U+5F58

Chinese

simp. and trad.		彘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彘
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (矢) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
彘	*l'eds
璏	l'eds, ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
薙	l̥ʰiːs, ljiʔ, *l'iʔ
知	*ʔl'e
蜘	*te
智	*ʔl'es
鼅	*te
潪	teɡs, deɡ
踟	*de
雉	*l'iʔ
矢	*hliʔ
痴	*l̥ʰɯ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'eds) : semantic 豕 (“pig; boar”) + phonetic 矢 (OC *hliʔ, “arrow”).

Etymology

From Tai-Kadai; compare Proto-Kam-Sui *ʔdlaːi⁵ (“wild pig”), Proto-Hlai *C-ləc (“wild boar”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhì (zhi⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄓˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶
Min Dong (BUC): dê
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): tē
(Teochew, Peng'im): di⁶
Wu (Wiktionary): zr (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhì
  - Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
  - Wade–Giles: chih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi⁶
  - Yale: jih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dê
  - IPA ^(key): /tɛi²⁴²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē
  - Tâi-lô: tē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: de
  - IPA (Xiamen): /te²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /te²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /te³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: di⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tĭ
  - IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: zr (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /z̻z̩²³/

Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	彘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	祭 (37)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	直例切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjiaj^H/
Li Rong	/ȡjɛi^H/
Wang Li	/ȡĭɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhì

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]r[a][t]-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*l'eds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhì
Middle Chinese	‹ drjej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]r[a][t]-s/
English	pig
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	彘
Reading #	1/1
No.	11492
Phonetic component	矢
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	滯
Old Chinese	/*l'eds/

Definitions

彘

(literary) pig; swine; boar
A surname.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 豬 (“pig; swine”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		豕, 彘, 豬, 豨
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		豬
Taxonomic name		豬
Mandarin	Beijing	豬
	Taiwan	豬
	Jinan	豬, 黑貓子 Hui, 黑牲口 Hui
	Muping	豬子
	Luoyang	豬
	Wanrong	豬
	Xi'an	豬, 嘮嘮
	Zhengzhou	豬
	Xuzhou	玀玀
	Yinchuan	豬, 黑子 Hui, 哼哼 Hui, 恨賊勒 Hui
	Lanzhou	豬
	Ürümqi	豬佬佬
	Wuhan	豬
	Chengdu	豬
	Guiyang	豬
	Liuzhou	豬
	Yangzhou	豬
	Nanjing	豬
	Hefei	豬
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	黑黑, 哼孜兒, 豬
Cantonese	Guangzhou	豬
	Hong Kong	豬
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	豬
	Foshan	豬
	Shunde	豬
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	豬
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	豬
	Doumen	豬
	Taishan	豬
	Kaiping (Chikan)	豬
	Dongguan	豬
	Yangjiang	豬
	Kuala Lumpur	豬
	Ho Chi Minh City	豬, heo
Gan	Nanchang	豬
	Lichuan	豬
	Pingxiang	豬
Hakka	Meixian	豬
	Changting	豬, 長嘴筒 argot
	Yudu	豬
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	豬仔
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	豬仔
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	豬仔
	Dongshi (Dabu)	豬
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	豬仔
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	豬
	Hong Kong	豬
	Sabah (Longchuan)	豬
	Senai	豬
Huizhou	Jixi	豬
Huizhou	Xianyu (formerly Zhanda)	豬
Jin	Taiyuan	豬, 豬兒
	Pingyao	豬兒
	Xinzhou	豬
Min Bei	Jian'ou	豨
	Dikou	豨
	Songxi	豨
	Zhenghe	豨
	Zhenqian	豨
	Jianyang	豨
	Wuyishan	豨
	Shibei	豨
Min Dong	Fuzhou	豬
	Fuqing	豬
	Gutian	豬
	Ningde	豬
	Zhouning	豬
	Fuding	豬
	Matsu	豬
Min Nan	Xiamen	豬, 豬仔
	Tong'an	豬
	Quanzhou	豬
	Yongchun	豬
	Zhangzhou	豬, 豬仔
	Yilan	豬
	Penang	豬
	Singapore	豬
	Philippines (Manila)	豬
	Longyan	豬
	Zhangping	豬
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	豬
	Datian	豨
	Chaozhou	豬
	Haifeng	豬
	Johor Bahru	豬
	Haikou	豬
	Leizhou	豬
Puxian Min	Putian	豬
Pinghua	Nanning	豬
Shehua	Fu'an	豬
	Fuding	豬
	Luoyuan	豬
	Sanming	豬
	Shunchang	豬
	Hua'an	豬
	Guixi	豬
	Cangnan	豬
	Jingning	豬
	Lishui	豬
	Longyou	豬
	Chaozhou	豬
	Fengshun	豬
Wu	Shanghai	豬玀, 玀玀 childish
	Suzhou	豬, 豬玀, 豬玀玀, 玀玀
	Hangzhou	豬玀
	Wenzhou	豬
	Chongming	豬農
	Danyang	玀玀 childish
	Jinhua	豬
	Ningbo	豬玀
Xiang	Changsha	豬, 寶樓
	Shuangfeng	豬
	Loudi	豬

Compounds

乳彘
人彘
依斟流彘
彘牢
彘盧／彘卢
彘肩
彘肩斗酒
彘豪
彘顱／彘颅
彘首
曾子殺彘／曾子杀彘

殺彘教子／杀彘教子
毫彘
牛彘胞
牢彘
犬彘
犬彘之食
狗彘
狗彘不如
狗彘不若
狗彘不食

田彘
眾彘／众彘
行同狗彘
行若狗彘
豕彘
豪彘
豬彘／猪彘
賁彘／贲彘
赤彘
野彘

Japanese

Kanji

彘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): てい (tei); でい (dei); えい (ei); え (e)
Kun: ぶた (buta)

Korean

Hanja

彘 (eum 체 (che))

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Vietnamese

Han character

彘: Hán Nôm readings: trệ

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References

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