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Kanji Detail for 狽 - "wolf"
狽
- Meaning
狽 means "wolf."
Wolf - A wolf species with short front legs and long back legs that rides on the back of another wolf species to move.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
wolf; be flurried
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
a legendary animal with short forelegs which rode a wolf
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
a legendary wolf; distressed; wretched
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
a legendary wolf; distressed, wretched
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A beast name. A type of wolf. Traditionally said that wolves and bei travel together; when separated they fall. Hence sudden urgency is called 狼狽. Also, colluding to do evil is called 狼狽為奸.
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
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- Strokes
- Radical
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