羆

羆 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+14, 19 strokes, cangjie input 田中戈心火 (WLIPF), four-corner 6033₁, composition ⿱罒熊)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 950, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28398
• Dae Jaweon: page 1392, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2928, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7F86

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pral) : phonetic 罷 (OC *breːlʔ, *bral, *bralʔ) + semantic 熊 (“bear”); the common part 能 is shared.

Observing that the young of some brown bear subspecies sport white stripes, which fade with age, around their chests, Zhang (2019) proposes that 羆 (OC *praj) is cognate to 斑 (OC *prân) "stripe, striped", both being from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pral. As 斑 (OC *prân) is possibly the same word as 班 (OC *prân) (Schuessler, 2007), see 班 (OC *prân) for more etymology.

羆

1. (archaic) brown bear

   • 吉夢維何、
     維熊維羆、
     維虺維蛇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     吉梦维何、
     维熊维罴、
     维虺维蛇。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Jí mèng wéi hé,
     Wéi xióng wéi pí,
     Wéi huǐ wéi shé. [Pinyin]

     What dreams are lucky?
     They have been about black bears and brown bears,
     They have been about asps and adders.

• 馬熊／马熊 (mǎxióng)
• 人熊 (rénxióng)
• 棕熊 (zōngxióng)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. brown bear

• Go-on: ひ (hi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi)
• Kun: ひぐま (higuma, 羆)

緋 (hi, “scarlet”) +‎ 熊 (kuma, “bear”)(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Tokyo) ひぐま [hìgúmá] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) ひ​ぐま [híꜜgùmà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [çiɡɯ̟ᵝma̠]

羆(ひぐま) or 羆(ヒグマ) • (higuma) 

1. a brown bear

   三毛別(さんけべつ)羆(ひぐま)事件(じけん)

   Sankebetsu higuma jiken

   Sankebetsu brown bear incident

羆 • (bi) (hangeul 비, revised bi, McCune–Reischauer pi, Yale pi)

1. (말곰 비, malgom-): brown bear, horse bear

• 熊 (웅, ung) bear

羆: Hán Nôm readings: bi

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