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Note: The Seal graph does indeed seem to have legs, which calls the gloss ‘legless’ under 蟲 into question; among the 23 characters appearing in SW with direct 豸 component, several are associated with tiger-like animals, but there are also civet cats, badgers, bears, jackal, etc., all ‘wild/ferocious animals’. | Note: The Seal graph does indeed seem to have legs, which calls the gloss ‘legless’ under 蟲 into question; among the 23 characters appearing in SW with direct 豸 component, several are associated with tiger-like animals, but there are also civet cats, badgers, bears, jackal, etc., all ‘wild/ferocious animals’. | ||
Compare: 貔() pí ‘gray tiger; white bear; arctic fox’, 貙() chū ‘tiger; wildcat’, 豹() bào ‘leopard; panther’, 貘() mò ‘panda’, 豺() chái ‘jackal’ (豺狗). | Compare: 貔() pí ‘gray tiger; white bear; arctic fox’, 貙() chū ‘tiger; wildcat’, 豹() bào ‘leopard; panther’, 貘() mò ‘panda’, 豺() chái ‘jackal’ (豺狗). | ||
“[豸] represents a feline, a head with whiskers, paws, backbone” —Wieger. | |||
Note: 豸 is also associated with the mythical animal 解/獬豸/廌/𤢒 xièzhì, said to be able to straighten the crooked, tell right from wrong, and intervene in and decide quarrels among men (hence the word 獬豸冠 ‘judicial cap’). | Note: 豸 is also associated with the mythical animal 解/獬豸/廌/𤢒 xièzhì, said to be able to straighten the crooked, tell right from wrong, and intervene in and decide quarrels among men (hence the word 獬豸冠 ‘judicial cap’). | ||
Compare: 廌(𢊁) zhì ‘legendary unicorn-like beast/lion’ (syn. 豸 in 解/獬豸/廌/𤢒, 觟𧣾; and in SW having 豸 abbrev. as component). | Compare: 廌(𢊁) zhì ‘legendary unicorn-like beast/lion’ (syn. 豸 in 解/獬豸/廌/𤢒, 觟𧣾; and in SW having 豸 abbrev. as component). | ||
豸 is the 153rd of the 214 radicals. | |||
As a component | Note: As a component 豸 is sometimes abbrev. to 犭, as in 貓/猫 māo. | ||
HDZ: 豸 : zhì : 长脊兽, 猫虎类 (貔, 貙, 豺, 豹); 无脚的虫, 如蚯蚓之类; 制止, 解决; (古) (传说) (神兽) 獬豸: 能辨曲直 (解/獬豸/廌/𤢒; 獬豸冠) | HDZ: 豸 : zhì : 长脊兽, 猫虎类 (貔, 貙, 豺, 豹); 无脚的虫, 如蚯蚓之类; 制止, 解决; (古) (传说) (神兽) 獬豸: 能辨曲直 (解/獬豸/廌/𤢒; 獬豸冠) | ||
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# | #c犭 | ||
#y jih- | #y jih- | ||
</WL> | </WL> | ||
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