饕餮
tāo​tiè

gluttonous

饕 tāo gluttonous

Components

號
號 Sound component
hào, hao, háo call, mark
食
食 Meaning component
shí, shi eat

eat

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartthaw[tʰ]ˤaw饕餮 thaw.thet glutton
Zhengzhangl̥ʰaːw

說文解字

貪也。从食號聲。

Sources

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

餮 tiè a legendary animal

Components

殄
殄 Sound component
tiǎn exterminate
食
食 Meaning component
shí, shi eat

eat

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartthet[tʰ]ˤət饕餮 thaw.thet glutton
Zhengzhangr̥ʰɯːd

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang