貔

貔 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹田心 (BHHWP), four-corner 2621₁, composition ⿰豸𣬉)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1202, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36606
• Dae Jaweon: page 1664, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3916, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8C94

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bi) : semantic 豸 + phonetic 𣬉 ().

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan དབྱི (dbyi, “lynx”) (Schuessler, 2007).

貔

1. ^† panther-like feline

   • 實墉實壑，實畝實籍，獻其貔皮，赤豹黃羆。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     实墉实壑，实亩实籍，献其貔皮，赤豹黄罴。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shí yōng shí hè, shí mǔ shí jí, xiàn qí pí pí, chì bào huáng pí. [Pinyin]

     Making strong his walls, and deep his moats,
     Laying out his fields, regulating his revenues,
     Presenting his skins of the panthers,
     With those of the red leopards and the yellow brown bears.

   • 勖哉夫子！尚桓桓如虎、如貔、如熊、如羆！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     勖哉夫子！尚桓桓如虎、如貔、如熊、如罴！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 7^th – 4^th centuries BCE

     Xù zāi fūzǐ! Shàng huánhuán rú hǔ, rú pí, rú xióng, rú pí! [Pinyin]

     Exert yourselves, officers — you shall be martial and imposing! Be like tigers, like panthers, like black bears, like brown bears!

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. brave heraldic beast

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)

• 貔(ヒ)貅(キュウ) (Hikyū, “Pixiu”)

貔 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. fox, leopard, panther

貔: Hán Nôm readings: tì

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