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-<WL>熊 [xióng] bear; 熊猫 xióngmāo panda
+<WL>熊 [xióng] bear; panda bear (熊猫, 大猫熊, 小熊猫); 北极熊 polar bear; 黑熊 black bear; 袋熊 wombat; 大熊座 Ursa Major@@; (HDZ:) …
-From 能 (néng) ‘bear’ and 灬 (火 huǒ) ‘fire’. 能 depicted a bear; now it is used for the word néng ‘able’. Whether the added 灬 four dots depict the bear’s feet, or 火 fire cooking bear meat, is uncertain.
+The Shuōwén Seal form of 熊(􁭃熋) xióng ‘a bear’ (roughly like a boar, but it lives in the mountains and hibernates) is said to combine 能(􁭂) néng ‘a kind of bear’, and 炎(􁯅) yán (abbrev. phonosemantic).
-#rG.026.07 K.AD656,GSR674a D.3.2227.5 M.2815 KX..679.10 B.343.0.03
+	Note: The old phonetic 炎 yán (cf. 熊熊 ‘flaming’) is abbrev. to 火/灬 in the modern form (as in the Seal); cf. 能.
+	Compare: 罴/羆(􁭄) pí ‘white-striped brown bear’ (Ursus arctos pruinosus).
+	Compare: 鸟/鳥(􀨤) niǎo ‘bird’; 乌/烏(􀪫) wū ‘(black) crow’.
+	HDZ: 熊 : xióng : (SW: 獸, 似豕,山居, 冬蟄) (兽名) 哺乳动物, 头大尾短, 四肢短粗, 脚掌大, 能直立行走, 也能爬树, 肉食为主 (白熊, 黑熊, 棕熊; 熊脂, 胸胆; 熊掌); (古州名); (姓)
+#rG.026.07 K.AD656,GSR674a D.3.2227.5 M.2815 KX..679.10 B.343.0.03 E.1
 #c能灬
-#y huhng\</WL>
+#y huhng\
+</WL>