彘

彘	U+5F58, 彘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F58

Translingual

Han character

彘 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女一心人心 (VMPOP), four-corner 2771₁, composition ⿱彑⿲匕矢匕)

Derived characters

璏, 𩻼

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9931
Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 33
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 961, character 14
Unihan data for U+5F58

Chinese

trad.		彘
simp. ^#		彘
alternative forms		𠅰𥏉𢑣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彘
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (矢) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
彘	*l'eds
璏	l'eds, ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
薙	l̥ʰiːs, ljiʔ, *l'iʔ
知	*ʔl'e
蜘	*te
智	*ʔl'es
鼅	*te
潪	teɡs, deɡ
踟	*de
雉	*l'iʔ
矢	*hliʔ
痴	*l̥ʰɯ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'eds) : semantic 豕 (“pig; boar”) + phonetic 矢 (OC *hliʔ, “arrow”) – a wild boar being shot by an arrow (as opposed to a domesticated pig)

Etymology

From Kra-Dai; compare Proto-Kam-Sui *ʔdlaːi⁵ (“wild pig”), Proto-Hlai *C-ləc (“wild boar”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhì (zhi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄓˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): dê
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tē

(Teochew, Peng'im): di⁶
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhì
  - Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhìh
  - Wade–Giles: chih⁴
  - Yale: jr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
  - Palladius: чжи (čži)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zi⁶
  - Yale: jih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dê
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛi²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē
  - Tâi-lô: tē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: de
  - IPA (Xiamen): /te²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /te²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /te³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: di⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zy
  - MiniDict: zy^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²³/

Middle Chinese: drjejH

Rime
Character	彘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	祭 (37)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直例切
Baxter	drjejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjiaj^H/
Li Rong	/ȡjɛi^H/
Wang Li	/ȡĭɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zai⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]r[a][t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*l'eds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhì
Middle Chinese	‹ drjej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]r[a][t]-s/
English	pig
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	彘
Reading #	1/1
No.	11492
Phonetic component	矢
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	滯
Old Chinese	/*l'eds/

Definitions

彘

(literary, dialect) swine; pig
a surname

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 豬 (“pig; swine”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		豕, 彘, 豬, 豨, 豚, 㣇
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		豬
Taxonomic name		豬
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	豬
	Taiwan	豬
	Chifeng	豬
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	豬
	Harbin	豬
	Shenyang	豬
	Malaysia	豬
	Singapore	豬
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	豬
	Tangshan	豬
	Cangzhou	豬
	Baoding	豬
	Shijiazhuang	豬
	Jinan	豬, 黑貓子 Hui, 黑牲口 Hui
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	豬子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Qingdao	豬
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	豬
	Wanrong	豬
	Zhengzhou	豬
	Xi'an	豬, 嘮嘮
	Xining	豬
	Xuzhou	豬, 玀玀
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	黑黑, 哼孜兒, 豬
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	豬, 黑子 Hui, 哼哼 Hui, 恨賊勒 Hui
	Lanzhou	豬
	Ürümqi	豬佬佬
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	豬
	Chongqing	豬
	Wuhan	豬
	Guiyang	豬
	Kunming	豬
	Guilin	豬
	Liuzhou	豬
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	豬
	Yangzhou	豬
	Nantong	豬
	Hefei	豬
Cantonese	Guangzhou	豬
	Hong Kong	豬
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	豬
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	豬
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	豬
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	豬
	Macau	豬
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	豬
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	豬
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	豬
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	豬
	Foshan	豬
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	豬
	Foshan (Shunde)	豬
	Foshan (Sanshui)	豬
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	豬
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	豬
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	豬
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	豬
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	豬
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	豬
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	豬
	Taishan	豬
	Kaiping (Chikan)	豬
	Enping (Niujiang)	豬
	Heshan (Yayao)	豬
	Dongguan	豬
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	豬
	Yangjiang	豬
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	豬
	Penang (Guangfu)	豬
	Singapore (Guangfu)	豬
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	豬, 㺧
	Móng Cái	豬, 𤞼
Gan	Nanchang	豬
	Lichuan	豬
	Pingxiang	豬
Hakka	Meixian	豬
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	豬
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	豬
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	豬
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	豬
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	豬
	Changting	豬, 長嘴筒 argot
	Yudu	豬
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	豬仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	豬仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	豬仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	豬
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	豬仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	豬
	Hong Kong	豬
	Sabah (Longchuan)	豬
	Senai (Huiyang)	豬
Huizhou	Jixi	豬
	Shexian	豬
	Shitai (Xianyu)	豬
Jin	Taiyuan	豬, 豬兒
	Pingyao	豬兒
	Xinzhou	豬
	Linhe	豬
	Jining	豬
	Hohhot	豬
	Zhangjiakou	豬
	Handan	豬
Northern Min	Jian'ou	豨
	Jian'ou (Dikou)	豨
	Songxi	豨
	Zhenghe	豨
	Zhenghe (Zhenqian)	豨
	Jianyang	豨
	Jianyang (Huangkeng)	豨
	Wuyishan	豨
	Pucheng (Shibei)	豨
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	豬
	Fuzhou (Changle)	豬
	Lianjiang	豬
	Fuqing	豬
	Pingtan	豬
	Yongtai	豬
	Minqing	豬
	Gutian	豬
	Pingnan	豬
	Luoyuan	豬
	Fu'an	豬
	Ningde	豬
	Xiapu	豬
	Zherong	豬
	Shouning	豬
	Zhouning	豬
	Fuding	豬
	Matsu	豬
Southern Min	Xiamen	豬, 豬仔
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	豬
	Quanzhou	豬
	Jinjiang	豬
	Nan'an	豬
	Shishi	豬
	Hui'an	豬
	Anxi	豬
	Yongchun	豬
	Dehua	豬
	Zhangzhou	豬, 豬仔
	Zhangzhou (Longhai)	豬
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	豬
	Hua'an	豬
	Nanjing	豬
	Pinghe	豬
	Zhangpu	豬
	Yunxiao	豬
	Zhao'an	豬
	Dongshan	豬
	Yilan	豬
	Tainan	豬仔
	Kinmen	豬
	Penang (Hokkien)	豬
	Singapore (Hokkien)	豬
	Manila (Hokkien)	豬
	Medan (Hokkien)	豬
	Longyan	豬
	Zhangping	豬
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	豬
	Datian	豨
	Chaozhou	豬, 老豬
	Shantou	豬
	Jieyang	豬, 猧
	Haifeng	豬
	Bangkok (Teochew)	豬
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	豬
	Singapore (Teochew)	豬
	Leizhou	豬
	Wenchang	豬
	Haikou	豬
	Singapore (Hainanese)	豬
Puxian Min	Putian	豬
Central Min	Yong'an	豨
	Sanming (Sanyuan)	豨
	Sanming (Shaxian)	豨
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	豬
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	豬
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	豬
Shehua	Fu'an	豬
	Fuding	豬
	Luoyuan	豬
	Sanming	豬
	Shunchang	豬
	Hua'an	豬
	Guixi (Zhangping)	豬
	Cangnan	豬
	Jingning (Hexi)	豬
	Lishui	豬
	Longyou	豬
	Chaozhou	豬
	Fengshun	豬
Wu	Shanghai	豬玀, 玀玀 childish, 豬玀玀 childish
	Shanghai (Chongming)	豬農
	Suzhou	豬, 豬玀, 豬玀玀, 玀玀
	Danyang	玀玀 childish
	Hangzhou	豬玀
	Ningbo	豬玀, 嘵豬, 泥豬, 愚豬
	Wenzhou	豬
	Jinhua	豬
Xiang	Changsha	豬, 寶樓
	Loudi	豬
	Shuangfeng	豬

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

彘

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): てい (tei)、でい (dei)、えい (ei)、え (e)
Kun: ぶた (buta)

Korean

Hanja

彘 (eum 체 (che))

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Vietnamese

Han character

彘: Hán Nôm readings: trệ

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References

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