虐
nüè HSK7

cruel

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approved by Prismcool · Oct 15, 2023, 07:02 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Oct 15, 2023, 07:02 PM

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Depicts a tiger (虍) attacking or clawing a person (人).

Components

虍
虍 Iconic component

Depicts a tiger.

人
人 Iconic component

Depicts a person.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartngjak[ŋ](r)awk cruel

說文解字

《說文》：“虐，殘也。从虍，虎足反爪人也。，古文虐如此。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)