熊

熊 (radical 86, 火+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈心火 (IPF), four-corner 2133₁, composition ⿱能灬)

• KangXi: page 679, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1090, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2227, character 5
• Unihan data for U+718A

Historical forms of the character 熊
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j22798 Transcribed ancient scripts L30031
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷlɯm) : phonetic 能 (OC *nɯː, *nɯːs, *nɯːŋ, *nɯːŋʔ) + semantic 火 (“fire”).

This character originally represented an onomatopoetic word (see 熊熊). Later its phonetic compound 能, the character for the Old Chinese word "bear", was borrowed for another word. This character thus began to represent the word "bear" instead.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-wam. Cognate with Tibetan དོམ (dom, “bear”), Burmese ဝံ (wam) (in ဝက်ဝံ (wak-wam, “bear”)).

熊

1. bear (mammal) (Classifier: 頭／头 m; 隻／只)
2. (colloquial) to scold
3. to oppress, to tyrannise
4. mean; malicious; merciless
5. loutish; oafish
6. (slang) bear; a large, hairy man, especially homosexual one
7. A surname​: Xiong (mainland China), Hsiung (Taiwan), Hung (Hong Kong)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bear

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: くま (kuma, 熊, Jōyō)
• Nanori: かげ (kage)

熊 (kuma): a brown bear.

From Old Japanese. Probably cognate with 隈 (kuma, “inside corner; inner bend; hollow or hole in something”), perhaps from the way that bears often live in dens. Probably also cognate with Korean 곰 (gom, “bear; hole”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) くま​ [kùmáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
  • (Tokyo) く​ま [kúꜜmà] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝma̠]

熊 (hiragana くま, katakana クマ, rōmaji kuma)

1. a bear (large mammal of family Ursidae)
2. (slang) a bear, an otter (a hairy man, especially one who is gay)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as クマ.

熊 • (ung)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 웅
  • Name (hangeul): 곰

1. bear

熊 (hùng)

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