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Kanji Detail for 犴 - "wild dog, prison"

  • Meaning

    犴 means "wild dog, prison."

    1. Wild dog - A feral canine living in northern regions.

    2. Prison - A local jail.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    wild dog (not very large); lock-up

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    a wild dog, a not very large lock-up

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    used in 狴犴[bi4 an4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    wild dog; jail, lock-up

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A prison. Anciently what villages used to detain criminals was called 犴.
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