餮

餮 · tiè

a legendary animal; a greedy person

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
tiè
Cantonese
tit3
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

a legendary animal; a greedy person

Dictionary definitions & readings

餮 tiè · (literary) greedy; gluttonous

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Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
74464.020:tiè Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
1144.010:tiè Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
367.110:tiè Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
tiè粵tit3 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
テツ テチ テン デン Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
철:1N Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
他結 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
MHOIV Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
1873.2 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1422.390 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
493.48 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
0453m Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+992E
Radical
食 · 184
Strokes
18
Residual strokes
9
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6327

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

18 strokes
餮
Strokes
18
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

18 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
thet · 他結 · 山開四入先透 · #3475

PHONO-ML, source line 18035; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1493.603
kCowles
4368
kDaeJaweon
1948.240
kFennIndex
520.03
kGSR
0453m
kHanYu
74464.020
kIRGDaeJaweon
1948.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74464.020
kIRGKangXi
1422.390
kKangXi
1422.390
kMatthews
6331
kMeyerWempe
3119
kMorohashi
44268 44268:E0101
kSBGY
493.48
kSMSZD2003Index
781.10
kCangjie
MHOIV
kFenn
281I
kFourCornerCode
1873.2
kMojiJoho
MJ028476 MJ028476:E0101 MJ028477:E0102
kPhonetic
1338
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kIICore
AGT
kIRG_GSource
G0-7751
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C34B
kIRG_JSource
J0-7138
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-88AA
kIRG_KSource
K1-6F4B
kIRG_TSource
T1-7775
kRSUnicode
184.9
kTotalStrokes
18
kBigFive
C34B
kCCCII
23514F
kCNS1986
1-7775
kCNS1992
1-7775
kEACC
23514F
kGB0
8749
kGB1
8749
kJis0
8124
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
7421
kTGH
2013:6327
kTaiwanTelegraph
7421
kXerox
301:071
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+7215+184.9.9
kCantonese
tit3
kDefinition
a legendary animal; a greedy person
kFanqie
他結
kHangul
철:1N
kHanyuPinyin
74464.020:tiè
kJapanese
テツ テチ テン デン
kJapaneseOn
TETSU TEN DEN
kKorean
CHEL
kMandarin
tiè
kSMSZD2003Readings
tiè粵tit3
kTGHZ2013
367.110:tiè
kXHC1983
1144.010:tiè

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
5dictionary records using 餮0forms using this shape1attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
殄 above 食 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿱殄食$(GHTJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱殄食$(GHTJKP)

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