饕餮

饕餮

Chinese

		gluttonous	gluttonous
trad. (饕餮)		饕	餮
simp. #(饕餮)		饕	餮

饕餮 (taotie motif)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāotiè

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ ㄊㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹ tit³
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tho-thiat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tao¹ tiêg⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāotiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ ㄊㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: taotiè
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao¹-tʻieh⁴
    • Yale: tāu-tyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tautieh
    • Palladius: таоте (taote)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰjɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou¹ tit³
    • Yale: tōu tit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹ tit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou¹ tid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰiːt̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho-thiat
    • Tâi-lô: tho-thiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toi'tiad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo³³ tʰiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛt̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tao¹ tiêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thau thiek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau³³⁻²³ tʰiek̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰɑu  tʰet̚/

Rime
Character	饕	餮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	先 (87)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	土刀切	他結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑu/	/tʰet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑu/	/tʰet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑu/	/tʰɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaw/	/tʰɛt̚/
Li Rong	/tʰɑu/	/tʰet̚/
Wang Li	/tʰɑu/	/tʰiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑu/	/tʰiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāo	tie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou1	tit3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tʰ]ˤaw  [tʰ]ˤət/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːw  r̥ʰɯːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	饕	餮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tāo	tiè
Middle Chinese	‹ thaw ›	‹ thet ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]ˁaw/	/*[tʰ]ˁət/
English	饕餮 thaw.thet glutton	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	饕	餮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4915	17108
Phonetic component	号	疹
Rime group	宵	物
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	饕	鐵
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːw/	/*r̥ʰɯːd/
Notes		說文作飻

Noun

饕餮

1. (Chinese mythology) taotie (legendary gluttonous animal)
2. (～紋) taotie (stylized design frequently found on ancient bronzes)
3. (figurative) gourmand; glutton; voracious eater
4. (figurative) fierce and greedy person

Derived terms

饕餮之徒 檮杌饕餮／梼杌饕餮

貪如饕餮／贪如饕餮 饕餮紋／饕餮纹

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
饕	餮
とう Hyōgaiji	てつ Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

饕(とう)餮(てつ) • (tōtetsu) 

1. a taotie
2. (figuratively) a brutal or covetous person

Derived terms

• 饕(とう)餮(てつ)文(もん) (tōtetsumon)