Chinese Character Wiki

餮

tiè

a legendary animal

Components
殄 sound component

殄  Sound component

tiǎn

  

exterminate

食 meaning component

食  Meaning component

shí, sì

  

eat

eat

Definitions

餮  

tiè

a legendary animal; a greedy person; gluttonous; see 饕餮[tāo​tiè], zoomorphic mask motif

Most common words with 餮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饕餮

gluttonous

餮

gluttonous

饕餮之徒

glutton

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tʰ]ˤət

thet

tiè

饕餮 thaw.thet glutton


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5263rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+992E


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