貘

貘 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月竹廿日大 (BHTAK), four-corner 2423₄, composition ⿰豸莫)

1. panther
2. tapir

• 𧕥, 𧕤

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1203, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36621
• Dae Jaweon: page 1664, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3915, character 16
• Unihan data for U+8C98

Sense of tapir since Qing and Republican eras due to a misinterpretation of a chimera of the same name attributed to Bai Juyi and further transmitted by Su Song to the Compendium of Materia Medica (1596) made known to Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in 1824.^[1]

貘

1. tapir
2. ^† giant panda

   • 其獸則𤛑旄貘犛，……。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其兽则𤛑旄貘牦，……。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 司馬相如 (Sima Xiangru) 《上林賦》 "Rhapsody on the Imperial Park", in 《漢書》 Book of Han.

     Qíshòu zé yóng máo mò máo/lí,....... [Pinyin]

     Its [the south's] mammals are zebus, hairy yaks, giant panda, grunting yaks, [...].

   • 獸則麙羊野麋，罷㹈貘貒，……。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     兽则麙羊野麋，罢㹈貘貒，……。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 扬雄 (Yang Xiong) 《蜀都賦》 "Rhapsody on the Shu capital"

     Shòu zé yányáng yěmí, pí máo/lí mò tuān,....... [Pinyin]

     The mammals are takins, wild elaphures, brown bears, yaks, giant pandas, hog badgers, [...].

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: みゃく (myaku)
• Kan-on: ばく (baku)

貘(ばく) or 貘(バク) • (baku) 

1. Alternative spelling of 獏 (“tapir”)
   • 2002 July 27, Mashiba, Shin, “第(だい)壱(いち)夜(や)　下(クダ)リ階(カイ)段(ダン) [Night 1: Downward Stairway]”, in 夢(ゆめ)喰(くい)見(けん)聞(ぶん) [The Dream-Eating Inspector], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Square Enix, page 5:

     そいつの名(な)前(まえ)は 蛭(ヒル)孤(コ)　悪(あく(・))夢(む(・))を糧(かて)とし生(い)きる　「貘(ばく)」である。

     Soitsu no namae wa Hiruko AKUMU o kate toshi ikiru “Baku” de aru.

     His name is Hiruko. He feeds on NIGHTMARES. He is a “baku”.

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

貘 • (maek) (hangeul 맥, revised maek, McCune–Reischauer maek, Yale mayk)

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貘: Hán Nôm readings: mạc

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