狐狸

狐狸

See also: 狐貍

Chinese

		fox	(dog); wild cat
simp. and trad. (狐狸)		狐	狸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): húli, húlí

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ ˙ㄌㄧ, ㄏㄨˊ ㄌㄧˊ

  (Chengdu, SP): fu² ni³

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): wu⁴ lei^4-2, wu⁴ lei⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): vu³ lei^4*, vu³ lei⁴

• Gan (Wiktionary): fu⁴ li
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fù-lì

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fu² li²

• Jin (Wiktionary): hu¹ li¹
• Min Bei (KCR): ǔ-lǐ
• Min Dong (BUC): hù-lì
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hô͘-lî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hou⁵ lai⁵ / hu⁵ li⁵

• Wu (Wiktionary): hhu li (T3)
• Xiang (Wiktionary): fu² li³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: húli
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ ˙ㄌㄧ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwu.lhi
    • Tongyong Pinyin: húli̊
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵ li³/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: húlí
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ ㄌㄧˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwuli
    • Tongyong Pinyin: húlí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵ li³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: fu² ni³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: fu li
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu²¹ ni⁵³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu⁴ lei^4-2, wu⁴ lei⁴
    • Yale: wùh léi, wùh lèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁴ lei^4-2, wu⁴ lei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu⁴ léi², wu⁴ léi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²¹ lei̯²¹⁻³⁵/, /wuː²¹ lei̯²¹/

Note: wu4 lei4 - literary.

• • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: vu³ lei^4*, vu³ lei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /vu²² lei²¹⁻²¹⁵/, /vu²² lei²¹/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: fu⁴ li
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ li²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fù-lì
    • Hakka Romanization System: fuˇ liˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu² li²
    • Sinological IPA: /fu¹¹ li¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fu² li²
    • Sinological IPA: /fu¹¹ li¹¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: hu¹ li¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /xu¹¹ li¹¹/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ǔ-lǐ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹ li²¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hù-lì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu⁵³⁻³³ l̃i⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô͘-lî
    • Tâi-lô: hôo-lî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: holii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ²⁴⁻²² li²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²⁴⁻²² li²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ¹³⁻²² li¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ li²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ²³⁻³³ li²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hou⁵ lai⁵ / hu⁵ li⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hôu lâi / hû lî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ lai⁵⁵/, /hu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ li⁵⁵/

Note:

• hou5 lai5 - vernacular;
• hu5 li5 - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhu li (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɦv̩ʷ²² li⁴⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: fu² li³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɸu¹³ li⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦuo  lɨ/▼

Rime
Character	狐	狸
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	戸吳切	里之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuo/	/lɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuo/	/lɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣo/	/lie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɔ/	/lɨ/
Li Rong	/ɣo/	/liə/
Wang Li	/ɣu/	/lĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuo/	/li/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hú	lí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ʷˤa  [r]ə|p.rə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaː  rɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	狐	狸	狸
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hú	lí	lí
Middle Chinese	‹ hu ›	‹ li ›	‹ li ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ʷˁa/	/*[r]ə/	/*p.rə/
English	fox	𧳏狸 *pə.[r]ə kind of wild cat (Jiāngnán pron. ap. Guō Pú, ca. 300 CE)	kind of wild cat (pron. west of the Hángǔ pass, ap. Fāngyán)
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	狐	狸
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4358	7822
Phonetic component	瓜	里
Rime group	魚	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	胡	釐
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaː/	/*rɯ/
Notes		俗貍字

Noun

狐狸

1. fox (Classifier: 隻／只)
2. (figuratively) sly person; treacherous person (Classifier: 個／个)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 狐狸 (“fox”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		狐
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		狐狸, 狐
Taxonomic name		狐
Mandarin	Beijing	狐狸
	Taiwan	狐狸
	Harbin	狐狸
	Hailar	狐狸
	Ulanhot	狐狸
	Tongliao	狐狸
	Chifeng	狐狸
	Bayanhot	狐狸
	Jinan	貔子, 貔大狐子, 貔狐子, 狐狸
	Muping	貔子, 狐狸
	Luoyang	狐狸
	Wanrong	狐子
	Xi'an	狐狸, 狐子
	Zhengzhou	狐狸
	Xining	野狐兒, 狐狸, 沙狐
	Xuzhou	狐狸子, 狐狸
	Yinchuan	狐子
	Lanzhou	野狐
	Ürümqi	狐狸
	Wuhan	狐狸
	Chengdu	狐狸, 毛狗
	Guiyang	狐狸, 毛狗
	Guilin	狐狸
	Liuzhou	狐狸
	Yangzhou	狐狸, 狸
	Nanjing	狐狸, 大仙 superstitious
	Hefei	狐狸
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	狐子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	狐狸
	Hong Kong	狐狸
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	狐狸
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	狐狸
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	狐狸
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	狐狸
	Macau	狐狸
	Panyu	狐狸
	Huadu (Huashan)	狐狸
	Conghua	狐狸
	Zengcheng	狐狸
	Foshan	狐狸
	Nanhai (Shatou)	狐狸
	Shunde	狐狸
	Sanshui	狐狸
	Gaoming (Mingcheng)	狐狸
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	狐狸
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	狐狸
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	狐狸
	Doumen	狐狸
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	狐狸
	Xinhui	狐狸
	Taishan	狐狸
	Kaiping (Chikan)	蜢狗
	Enping (Niujiang)	狐狸
	Heshan (Yayao)	狐狸
	Dongguan	狐狸
	Bao'an (Shajing)	狐狸
	Shaoguan	狐狸
	Yunfu	狐狸
	Yangjiang	狐狸
	Xinyi	狐狸
	Lianjiang	狐狸
	Nanning	狐狸
	Wuzhou	狐狸
	Yulin	狐狸
	Hepu	狐狸
	Kuala Lumpur	狐狸
	Ho Chi Minh City	狐狸
Gan	Nanchang	狐狸
	Lichuan	狐兒
	Pingxiang	狐狸
Hakka	Meixian	狐狸
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	狐狸
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	狐狸
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	狐狸
	Zengcheng (Zhengguo)	狐狸, 禾狸
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	狐狸
	Conghua (Lütian)	狐狸
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	狐狸
	Yudu	狐狸子, 狐狸
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	狐狸
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	狐狸, 狐狸仔
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	狐狸
	Dongshi (Dabu)	狐狸
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	狐狸
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	狐狸
	Hong Kong	狐狸
	Senai	狐狸
	Singkawang	狐狸
Huizhou	Jixi	狐狸
Jin	Taiyuan	狐子, 狐狸
	Pingyao	狐子
	Xinzhou	狐子
	Baochang	狐狸
	Jining	狐子
	Hohhot	狐子
	Baotou	狐子
	Dongsheng	狐子
	Linhe	狐子
	Haibowan	狐子
Min Bei	Jian'ou	狐狸
Min Dong	Fuzhou	狐狸
	Fuqing	野貓
Min Nan	Xiamen	狐狸, 狸貓
	Quanzhou	狐狸, 狸貓
	Zhangzhou	狐狸, 狸貓
	Dongshan	狐狸
	Taipei	狐狸
	Kaohsiung	狐狸
	Tainan	狐狸
	Taichung	狐狸
	Wuqi	狐狸
	Hsinchu	狐狸
	Taitung	狐狸
	Lukang	狐狸
	Yilan	狐狸
	Magong	狐狸
	Penang	狐狸
	Singapore	狐狸
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	狸貓
	Datian	狐狸嫲
	Pingnan	狐狸
	Chaozhou	狐狸
	Johor Bahru	狐狸
	Haikou	狐狸
Puxian Min	Putian	狐狸
Pinghua	Nanning	狐狸
	Guilin	狐狸
Wu	Shanghai	狐狸
	Suzhou	狐狸
	Hangzhou	狐狸, 大仙 superstitious
	Wenzhou	狐狸
	Chongming	狐狸
	Danyang	狐狸
	Jinhua	狐狸
	Ningbo	狐狸
Xiang	Changsha	狐狸
	Shuangfeng	狐狸
	Quanzhou	狐狸精, 狐狸

Derived terms

九尾狐狸 狐狸尾巴 狐狸座 (Húlizuò) 狐狸指 狐狸狗 狐狸精 (húlijīng)

簡落狐狸／简落狐狸 老狐狸 虎狼當路，不治狐狸／虎狼当路，不治狐狸 野狐狸 露出了狐狸尾巴

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (狐狸):

• → Japanese: 狐 (こ)狸 (り) (kori)
• → Korean: 호리 (狐貍, hori)
• → Vietnamese: hồ li (狐狸)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
狐	狸
こ Hyōgaiji	り Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 狐狸 (ɦuo lɨ).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) こ​り [kóꜜrì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞ɾʲi]

Noun

狐狸 (hiragana こり, rōmaji kori)

1. foxes and tanukis
2. sly or treacherous person

Derived terms

• 豺狼路 (さいろうみち)に当 (あ)たれり，安 (いずく)んぞ狐狸 (こり)を問 (と)わん (sairō michi ni atareri, izukunzo kori o towan)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
狐	狸

Noun

狐狸

1. Hán tự form of hồ li.