貍
límáiyù

a fox-like animal

Phonosemantic compound. 豸 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound.

Components

豸
豸 Meaning component
zhì (dhole), beast
里
里 Sound component
lǐ, li village

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

霾

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

薶

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlip.rəkind of wild cat
Zhengzhangp·rɯ

說文解字

伏獸，似貙。从豸里聲。

Sources

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