饕

饕	U+9955, 饕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9955

← 饔
[U+9954]

CJK Unified Ideographs

饖 →
[U+9956]

Translingual

Han character

饕 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+13, 22 strokes, cangjie input 口弓人戈女 (RNOIV) or 口山人戈女 (RUOIV), four-corner 6173₂, composition ⿱號食)

gluttonous, greedy, covetous

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1426, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44426
Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4476, character 1
Unihan data for U+9955

Chinese

trad.		饕
simp. ^#		饕
alternative forms		飸𧈐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
饕	*l̥ʰaːw
號	ɦlaːw, ɦlaːws
号	*ɦlaːws
枵	*hraw
呺	*hraw
鴞	*ɦraw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l̥ʰaːw): phonetic 號 (OC *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws) + semantic 食 (“food”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tāo (tao¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tho

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tao
  - Wade–Giles: tʻao¹
  - Yale: tāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
  - Palladius: тао (tao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tou¹
  - Yale: tōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
  - Tâi-lô: tho
  - Phofsit Daibuun: toy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰo⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰo⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: thaw

Rime
Character	饕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	土刀切
Baxter	thaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaw/
Li Rong	/tʰɑu/
Wang Li	/tʰɑu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou¹

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

(Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	饕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tāo
Middle Chinese	‹ thaw ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]ˁaw/
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	饕
Reading #	1/1
No.	4915
Phonetic component	号
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːw/

Definitions

饕

(literary) gluttonous; greedy; covetous
- 不仁之人，決性命之情而饕富貴。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  不仁之人，决性命之情而饕富贵。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE
  Bùrén zhī rén, jué xìngmìng zhī qíng ér tāo fùguì. [Pinyin]
  While those who are not benevolent, having violently altered the character of their proper nature, greedily pursue after riches and honours.
used in 饕餮 (tāotiè)

Compounds

老饕 (lǎotāo)
雪虐風饕 / 雪虐风饕
饕口饞舌 / 饕口馋舌
饕家
饕戾
饕餮 (tāotiè)
饕餮之徒
饕餮紋 / 饕餮纹
饕饗 / 饕飨

Japanese

Kanji

饕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): とう (tō)
Kun: むさぼる (musaboru)

Korean

Hanja

饕 (eum 도 (do))

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Vietnamese

Han character

饕: Hán Nôm readings: thao

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