袋狼 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

dàiláng

thylacine

dài, dai pocket, bag

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 代 represents the sound.

Components

代 Sound component

dài replace

衣 Meaning component

yī clothes

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	dojH	Cə.lˤək-s	bag

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart

láng wolf

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound.

Components

犭 Meaning component

quǎn dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

良 Sound component

liáng good

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lang	[r]ˤaŋ	wolf
Zhengzhang		raːŋ
Unicode	lɑng

說文解字

似犬，銳頭，白頰，高前，廣後。从犬良聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)