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貉

háo, hé, mò

badger

Phonosemantic compound. 豸 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components
豸 meaning component

豸  Meaning component

zhì

  

(dhole), beast

各 sound component

各  Sound component

gè

  

each

Evolution

貉 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
貉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
貉 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
貉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

貉  

háo

badger; raccoon dog

貉  

hé

raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki); also pr. [háo]

貉  

mò

old term for northern peoples; silent

Most common words with 貉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

貉

also pr. [háo]

一丘之貉

jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤrak

maek

mò

a Northern tribe


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5468th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8C89

Shuowen

“貉，北方豸穜。从豸，各聲。孔子曰：‘貉之為言惡也。’”


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