衁

衁 (Kangxi radical 143, 血+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜女竹月廿 (YVHBT), four-corner 0010₇, composition ⿱亡血)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1107, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33969
• Dae Jaweon: page 1569, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3051, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8841

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmaːŋ) : phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ) + semantic 血 (“blood”).

Borrowed from Austroasiatic. Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟhaam ~ *ɟhiim (“blood”), whence Khmer ឈាម (chiəm, “blood”), Mon ဆီ (chim, “blood”), Proto-Bahnaric *bhaːm (“blood”), Proto-Katuic *ʔahaam (“blood”), Proto-Khmuic *maː₁m (“blood”). Chinese has final -ŋ because initial and final m are mutually exclusive (Schuessler, 2003; Schuessler, 2007).

This word's rare occurrence in a traditional saying indicates that it is not part of the active vocabulary of OC, but a survival from a substrate language.

衁

1. (obsolete) blood

   • 其繇曰：士刲羊，亦無衁也；女承筐，亦無貺也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其繇曰：士刲羊，亦无衁也；女承筐，亦无贶也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Qí yáo yuē: shì kuī yáng, yì wú huāng yě; nǚ chéng kuāng, yì wú kuàng yě. [Pinyin]

     The hexagram's divination reads: "A man slaughters a sheep, yet there is no blood; a woman bears a basket, yet there is no gift."

   • 紅帷赤幕羅脤膰，衁池波風肉陵屯。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     红帷赤幕罗脤膰，衁池波风肉陵屯。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 韓愈 (Han Yu), 陸渾山火和皇甫湜用其韻 "Mountain Fire of Luhun, in Response to Huangfu Shi and Using his Rhymes"; translated by Alex Yang (2007).^[1]

     Hóng wéi chì mù luó shèn pán, huāng chí bō fēng ròu líng tún. [Pinyin]

     Surrounded by red curtains and vermillion drapes they spread out the raw and cooked sacrificial meat; in a pool of blood, there were waves and winds, and the flesh piled up in a mound.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (rare) blood

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: ち (chi)