Chinese Character Wiki

獵

liè

hunt

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

dog

巤 sound component

巤  Sound component

liè

  

a mane

Evolution

獵 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
獵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
獵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
獵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

猎 (獵) 

liè

hunt; field sports; hunting

Most common words with 獵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

猎

hunting

猎人

hunter

猎物

prey

狩猎

to hunt

打猎

to go hunting

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*r[a]p

ljep

liè

hunt


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.2193% of movies

1343rd most common character in movies

1687th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

猎

Unicode

U+7375

Shuowen

“獵，放獵逐禽也。从犬，巤聲。”


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