狼

狼 (radical 94, 犬+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹戈日女 (KHIAV), four-corner 4323₂, composition ⿰犭良)

• 𦵧, 𥱉, 𮯏

• KangXi: page 712, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20432
• Dae Jaweon: page 1124, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1350, character 7
• Unihan data for U+72FC

Historical forms of the character 狼
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raːŋ) : semantic 犭 + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ).

狼

1. wolf (Classifier: 匹 m; 隻／只 m; 條／条 m)
2. (figuratively) dirty guy; pervert

• (wolf): (Min Nan) 普狸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. wolf

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: おおかみ (ōkami, 狼)^{←おほかみ (ofokami, historical)}

/opo kami₂/ → /opokami/ → /ofokami/ → /owokami/ → /oːkami/

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 大 (opo, “great”) +‎ 神 (kami, “god, spirit”).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) お​おかみ [óꜜòkàmì] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [o̞ːka̠mʲi]

狼 (counter 匹, hiragana おおかみ, katakana オオカミ, rōmaji ōkami, historical hiragana おほかみ, historical katakana オホカミ)

1. a wolf (animal)
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki

     狐狼 上扈反, 倭言岐都禰, 又狐諼獸鬼所乘有三徳, 狐疑不定也, 狼音良, 訓, 似犬也, 倭言大神也

   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 7, page 56:

     犲狼 [...] 説文云、狼、音郎、於保加美、和名二字、本草和名、犲皮、和名於保加美、雄略紀、豺狼二字同訓、貝原氏曰、狼、於保加美 [...]

   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 18, page 17: (Shinpukuji manuscript)

     犲狼: 兼名苑云狼一名犲音於説文云狼音即和名於保加美似犬而銃頭白頬者也爾雅注云獥音叫狼子也

   • c. 1177-1188: Iroha Jiruishō

     狼（オホカミ）

   • 1444: Kagakushū (Volume 13)

     狼（ヲヽカミ）

2. Short for 日本狼 (Nihon'ōkami, “Japanese wolf”).
   • 2006 May 20, Akaishi, Michiyo, “最さい終しゅう話わ [Final Chapter]”, in AMAKUSAアマクサ1637 [AMAKUSA1637], volume 12 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 179:

     狼 (おおかみ)って絶 (ぜつ)滅 (めつ)してないの？

     Ōkamitte zetsumetsu shite nai no?

     Aren’t wolves supposed to be extinct?

     狼 (おおかみ)いっぱいいますよー　どうしたんです　会 (かい)長 (ちょう)　今 (きょ)日 (う)は

     Ōkami ippai imasu yō Dō shitan desu kaichō kyō wa

     Wolves are all alive and well. Why are you acting so strange today, chief?

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

• (canids) イヌ科 (か) (Inu-ka, “Canidae”); 犬 (イヌ) (inu, “dog”), 狼 (オオカミ) (ōkami, “wolf”), 狐 (キツネ) (kitsune, “fox”), コヨーテ (koyōte, “coyote”), ジャッカル (jakkaru, “jackal”) ^{(Category: ja:Canids)}

Alteration from ōkami above. Appears in the Kamakura period.[1][4]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [o̞ːka̠me̞]

狼 (hiragana おおかめ, rōmaji ōkame, historical hiragana おほかめ)

1. (possibly obsolete) a wolf (animal)
   • 1593: Esopono fabulas (Aesop's Fables), "Vôcameto, fitcujino tatoyeno coto"

     Aru cauabatani vôcamemo, fitcujimo mizzuuo nomuni, [...]

   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 697)

     Vôcame. ヲゥカメ (狼) 狼.

   • 1632: Diego Collado, Dictionarium Sive Thesauri Linguae Iaponicae Compendium, page 75

     Lupus, i: lobo: yàmàinu. vel, vocame:

• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.
• Kamei, Takashi (1944) Kagakushū: Gennabon (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten
• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
• Tadakane, Tachibana; Atsuo Masamune (ed.) (c. 1177-1188) Iroha Jiruishō (in Japanese), Kazama Shobō, published 1971
• Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, →ISBN.

狼 • (rang, nang)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 랑, 낭 (revised: rang, nang, McCune–Reischauer: rang, nang, Yale: lang, nang)
  • Name (hangeul): 이리

1. (이리 랑, iri-): wolf

狼: Hán Việt readings: lang[1][2][3]
狼: Nôm readings: lang[1][2][4][5]

1. Hán tự form of lang (“wolf”).

• 𣋀天狼 (Sao Thiên Lang, “Sirius”)