狐狸

See also: 狐貍

Chinese

fox (dog); wild cat
simp. and trad.
(狐狸)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (33) (37)
Final () (23) (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuo/ /lɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuo/ /lɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣo/ /lie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɔ/ /lɨ/
Li
Rong
/ɣo/ /liə/
Wang
Li
/ɣu/ /lĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuo/ /li/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hu › ‹ li › ‹ li ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ʷˤa/ /*[r]ə/ /*p.rə/
English fox 𧳏狸 *pə.[r]ə kind of wild cat (Jiāngnán pron. ap. Guō Pú, ca. 300 CE) kind of wild cat (pron. west of the Hángǔ pass, ap. Fāngyán)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 4358 7822
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷaː/ /*rɯ/
Notes

Noun

狐狸

  1. fox (Classifier: )
  2. (figuratively) sly person; treacherous person (Classifier: )

Derived terms

  • 簡落狐狸简落狐狸
  • 老狐狸
  • 野狐狸
  • 露出了狐狸尾巴

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Hyōgaiji

Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 狐狸 (ɦuo lɨ).

Pronunciation

Noun

狐狸 (hiragana こり, rōmaji kori)

  1. foxes and tanukis
  2. sly or treacherous person

Derived terms

  • 豺狼路 (さいろうみち) ()たれり, (いずく)んぞ () () ()わん (sairō michi ni atareri, izukunzo kori o towan)

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word

Noun

狐狸

  1. Hán tự form of hồ li
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