吠

吠 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口戈大 (RIK), four-corner 6303₄, composition ⿰口犬)

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• Kangxi Dictionary: page 177, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3331
• Dae Jaweon: page 395, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 587, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5420

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 口 (“mouth”) + 犬 (“dog”) – to bark.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baus (“to bark”); cognate to Mizo bauh (“to bark”) (Schuessler, 2007, 2024). Ultimately onomatopoeic.

吠

1. (of a dog) to bark

   • 鷄鳴狗吠相聞，而達乎四境。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     鸡鸣狗吠相闻，而达乎四境。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Jī míng gǒu fèi xiāng wén, ér dá hū sìjìng. [Pinyin]

     Cocks crow and dogs bark to one another, all the way to the four borders of the State.

   • 2008, “阿比仔的心事”, in 林文修 (lyrics), 曹俊鴻 (music), 戀情海, performed by 詹雅雯:

     天袜光　狗袜吠　趕緊出門來做工 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     天袜光　狗袜吠　赶紧出门来做工 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     thiⁿ bōe kng, káu bōe pūi, kóaⁿ-kín chhut-mn̂g lâi chòe-kang [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Dawn hasn't broken, the dogs haven't barked, they rush out to work

2. (Cantonese) to talk nonsense

• (Hokkien) “吠”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “吠”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 157.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Bark; howl.

• Go-on: ばい (bai)、お (o)
• Kan-on: はい (hai)
• Kun: ほえる (hoeru, 吠える)、ほえる (hoeru, 吠る)

吠 (eum 폐 (pye))

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吠: Hán Nôm readings: phệ, phịa

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