饕餮

Chinese

		gluttonous	gluttonous
simp. and trad. (饕餮)		饕	餮

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tāotiè

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄠㄊㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹ tit³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: tāotiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄠㄊㄧㄝˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tautieh
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou¹ tit³
  - Yale: tōu tit
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹ tit⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou¹ tid³
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰiːt̚³/

Middle Chinese: /tʰɑu tʰet̚/▼

Rime
Character	饕	餮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	土刀切	他結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑu/	/tʰet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑu/	/tʰet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑu/	/tʰɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰaw/	/tʰɛt̚/
Li Rong	/tʰɑu/	/tʰet̚/
Wang Li	/tʰɑu/	/tʰiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑu/	/tʰiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāo	tie

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter-Sagart): /*[tʰ]ˤaw [tʰ]ˤət/

(Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːw r̥ʰɯːd/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	饕	餮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tāo	tiè
Middle Chinese	‹ thaw ›	‹ thet ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]ˤaw/	/*[tʰ]ˤət/
English	饕餮 thaw.thet glutton	饕餮 thaw.thet glutton
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	饕	餮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4915	17108
Phonetic component	号	疹
Rime group	宵	物
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	饕	鐵
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaːw/	/*r̥ʰɯːd/
Notes		說文作飻

Noun

饕餮

(Chinese mythology) taotie (legendary gluttonous animal)
(～紋) taotie (stylized design frequently found on ancient bronzes)
(figuratively) gourmand; glutton; voracious eater
(figuratively) fierce and greedy person

Derived terms

檮杌饕餮／梼杌饕餮
貪如饕餮／贪如饕餮

饕餮之徒
饕餮紋／饕餮纹

Japanese

Kanji in this term
饕	餮
とう Hyōgaiji	てつ Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

饕餮 (hiragana とうてつ, rōmaji tōtetsu)

a taotie
(figuratively) a brutal or covetous person

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