餮
餮 — cheol
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 탐할 철
- Romanization
- cheol
- English
- a legendary animal; a greedy person
- Mandarin
- tiè
- Japanese on'yomi
- テツ, テチ, テン, デン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- むさぼ.る
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 食 (184, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+992E
Parts that make up 餮
How 餮 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 餮 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 殄, 食.
Japanese words with 餮
- 饕餮とうてつ taotie (Chinese mythological creature commonly represented as a motif on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties); covetousness; greed
- 饕餮文とうてつもん taotie motif (on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties)
Other hanja read “철”
Other hanja with radical 食
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