an amphibious beast resembling a tiger with one horn

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approved by Peter Olson · Oct 7, 2020, 04:02 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 7, 2020, 04:02 PM

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A tiger  with one horn.

Components

Iconic component

Depicts a horn.

Iconic component

Depicts a tiger.


Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsjes.le (place name)

說文解字

《說文》:“虒,委虒,虎之有角者也。从虎,聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫許進雄《新編進階甲骨文字典: 甲骨文發現120周年紀念版》p.36
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica