Talk:豺

Sense: jackal
,, the character is evidently still (mistakenly) used to mean "jackal" in modern Chinese, likely contributed by mistranslations by English scholars. This is demonstrated by a google search for the character. However, this needs some sort of label: I've added 'rare', but it's not that rare. What's your input? --Corsicanwarrah (talk) 07:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you have any concrete examples of how you know it's referring to the jackal? — justin(r)leung { (t...) 20:05, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This news article talks about how "golden jackals" in Africa are actually wolves (a discovery in 2015), and they used "金豺" to refer to the golden jackal. Also, this article about dholes says "其他的還有亞洲胡狼（俗稱金豺）、側紋胡狼（俗稱條紋豺）、衣索比亞狼（俗稱西門豺）等，雖然也有xx豺的外號，但都不是豺. " ("Although these animals [whose English names would have the word "jackal" in them] are sometimes called 豺, they are not actually 豺 (dholes).") --Corsicanwarrah (talk) 20:19, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * These uses seem to have 豺 as part of names, not used as a standalone word. I'm not sure if it's worth a definition here. Maybe it's worth mentioning in the usage notes that jackal = 豺 works both ways (translators using "豺" for "jackal" and "jackal" for "豺"). — justin(r)leung { (t...) 20:25, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: May 2019–March 2020
Rfv-sense: "cruel; wicked; mean" (from Unicode). Is this sense used outside of terms like 豺狼? — justin(r)leung { (t...) 01:21, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * RFV failed. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 04:18, 23 March 2020 (UTC)