獣

獣 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火口戈大 (FRIK), composition ⿰⿱畄𠮛犬)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 719, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20714
• Dae Jaweon: page 1130, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1369, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7363

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 獸)

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: じゅう (jū, Jōyō)^{←じう (ziu, historical)}
• Kun: けもの (kemono, 獣, Jōyō)、けだもの (kedamono, 獣)

Literally "thing of hair". Compound of 毛 (ke, “hair”) +‎ だ (da, genitive marker) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).^[1][2] Medial -da- is a very rare genitive marker found in compounds, also seen in 果物 (kudamono, “fruit”).

• (Tokyo) けだもの [kèdámónó] (Heiban – [0])^[3][2]
• IPA^(key): [ke̞da̠mo̞no̞]

獣(けだもの) • (kedamono) 

1. an animal covered in fur, a beast
   • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi, page 6 (back):

     獸 ケタモノ

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Literally "hair thing". Compound of 毛 (ke, “hair”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).^[1][2]

• (Tokyo) けもの [kèmónó] (Heiban – [0])^[3][2]
• IPA^(key): [ke̞mo̞no̞]

獣(けもの) • (kemono) 

1. an animal covered in fur, a beast
   • 1999 February 4, “ダーク・グレイ [Dark Gray]”, in Vol.1, Konami:

     からだが灰(はい)色(いろ)のけもの。あまり見(み)かけない貴(き)重(ちょう)ないきもの。

     Karada ga haīro no kemono. Amari mikakenai kichō na ikimono.

     A beast with a gray body. It is a rarely seen treasure of nature.

   • 1999 July 5, “モン・ラーバス [Mon Larvas]”, in BOOSTER 3, Konami:

     ラーバスがより進(しん)化(か)したけもの。力(ちから)がパワーアップしている。

     Rābasu ga yori shinka shita kemono. Chikara ga pawā-appu shite iru.

     A beast who evolved from Larvas and is now even more powerful.

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.^[4] From Proto-Japonic *sisi. Cognate with 肉 (shishi, “meat of a beast”).^[4]

• (Tokyo) しし [shíꜜshì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɕi]

獣(しし) • (shishi) 

1. (archaic) a beast (used for its meat, such as a boar or a deer)
2. (slang) a female attendant at a bathhouse or hot spring
3. (slang, archaic) a female prostitute at a bathhouse or hot spring

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:娼婦

• 獣(しし)食(く)った報(むく)い (shishi kutta mukui)

/siu/ → /ɕiu/ → /d͡ʑiu/ → /d͡ʑuː/

From Middle Chinese 獸 / 兽 (syuw^H, “(wild) animal”). Compare modern Mandarin reading shòu, Min Nan siù.

• (Tokyo) じゅう [júꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑɨː]

獣(じゅう) • (jū) ^{←じう (ziu)?}

1. beast

• 獣(じゅう)を逐(お)う者(もの)は目(め)に太(たい)山(ざん)を見(み)ず (jū o ou mono wa me ni taizan o mizu)

• Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN.