餮 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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tiè

a legendary animal

Components

殄 Sound component

tiǎn

exterminate

食 Meaning component

shí, sì

eat

Definitions

tiè

a legendary animal; a greedy person; gluttonous; see 饕餮[tāotiè], zoomorphic mask motif

Most common words with 餮

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[tʰ]ˤət	thet	tiè	饕餮 thaw.thet glutton

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5263rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	18
Unicode	U+992E

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