走狗

Chinese

		to walk; to go; to move to walk; to go; to move; to leave	dog
simp. and trad. (走狗)		走	狗
Literally: “running dog”.

Attestable in pre-Qin texts in the "hunting dog" sense.^[1]

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	狗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.kˤroʔ/
English	dog
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.

走狗

(literary) hunting dog; hound
(literary, historical) dog racing game in ancient times
(figuratively, politics, pejorative) running dog; lackey; cat's paw; person subservient to counterrevolutionary or evil interests

資本家的走狗 / 资本家的走狗 ― zīběnjiā de zǒugǒu ― running dog of capitalists
- 這些國家的人民起來反對美帝國主義的和其他帝國主義的走狗，也就是反對帝國主義的反動統治。 [MSC, trad.]
  这些国家的人民起来反对美帝国主义的和其他帝国主义的走狗，也就是反对帝国主义的反动统治。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1968, Mao Zedong, Chairman Mao's "The Movement of World Revolution" (毛主席论世界革命)
  Zhèxiē guójiā de rénmín qǐlái fǎnduì měidìguózhǔyì de hé qítā dìguózhǔyì de zǒugǒu, yějiùshì fǎnduì dìguózhǔyì de fǎndòng tǒngzhì. [Pinyin]
  People opposed to the reactionary rule of imperialism in these countries are rising up against U.S. imperialism and other running dogs of imperialism.
(literary, humble) self-deprecating form of address for oneself; the servant me; I, the follower

走狗

走狗 (hiragana そうく, rōmaji sōku)

hound
a tool of another person, cat's paw
- 1929, 小林多喜二, 不在地主:
  警察 (けいさつ)は如 (い)何 (か)にも君等 (きみら)の言 (い)う通 (とお)り、資 (し)本 (ほん)家 (か)の走 (そう)狗 (く)だ。
  Keisatsu wa ika ni mo kimi-ra no iu-tōri, shihonka no sōku da.
  Like you all said, those police are nothing more than capitalist tools.

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