餮

餮	U+992E, 餮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-992E

← 餭
[U+992D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

餯 →
[U+992F]

Translingual

Han character

餮 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 一竹人戈女 (MHOIV), four-corner 1873₂, composition ⿱殄食)

a legendary animal
a greedy person

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1422, character 39
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44268
Dae Jaweon: page 1948, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4464, character 2
Unihan data for U+992E

Chinese

trad.		餮
simp. ^#		餮
alternative forms		飻𩚸𩚝𩚺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沴	*rɯːls
趁	nlanʔ, l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
紾	ʔl'anʔ, kljɯnʔ
跈	nlɯːnʔ, l'ɯːnʔ
殄	*l'ɯːnʔ
抮	*hlɯːnʔ
駗	rɯn, kljɯnʔ
珍	*ʔl'ɯn
診	l'ɯns, kljɯnʔ
畛	kljɯn, kljɯnʔ
疹	*kljɯnʔ
軫	*kljɯnʔ
胗	kljɯnʔ, klɯnʔ
袗	kljɯnʔ, kljɯns
眕	*kljɯnʔ
飻	*l̥ʰɯːd
餮	*r̥ʰɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *r̥ʰɯːd): phonetic 殄 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + semantic 食 (“food”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiè (tie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tit³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tiè
  - Wade–Giles: tʻieh⁴
  - Yale: tyè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tieh
  - Palladius: те (te)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tit³
  - Yale: tit
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tit⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: tid³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːt̚³/

Middle Chinese: thet

Rime
Character	餮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	他結切
Baxter	thet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛt̚/
Li Rong	/tʰet̚/
Wang Li	/tʰiet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tit³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[tʰ]ˤət/

(Zhengzhang): /*r̥ʰɯːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	餮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tiè
Middle Chinese	‹ thet ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]ˁət/
English	饕餮 thaw.thet glutton
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	餮
Reading #	1/1
No.	17108
Phonetic component	疹
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鐵
Old Chinese	/*r̥ʰɯːd/
Notes	說文作飻

Definitions

餮

(literary) gluttonous; greedy
used in 饕餮 (tāotiè)
used in 餮切

Compounds

貪餮 / 贪餮
餮切
饕餮 (tāotiè)
饕餮之徒
饕餮紋 / 饕餮纹

Japanese

Kanji

餮

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): てつ (tetsu)、てん (ten)、でん (den)

Korean

Hanja

餮 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

餮: Hán Việt readings: thiết^[1]^[2]
餮: Nôm readings: thiết^[3]

chữ Hán form of thiết (“thao thiết (饕餮), a gluttonous monster from Chinese legend”)

References

^ Nguyễn (1974).
^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
^ Trần (2004).