餮 — Chinese character
餮
tiè
glutton, greedy person; insatiable dragon
- Pinyin
- tiè
- Radical
- 184 ⾷ (Eat)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 殄 食
- Formation
- pictophonetic — eat; meaning component 食; sound component 殄
- Japanese
- 餮 as a kanji
Common words with 餮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饕餮 | tāo tiè | ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king; zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes |
| 饕餮之徒 | tāo tiè zhī tú | glutton; gourmand |
| 饕餮大餐 | tāo tiè dà cān | great meal fit for dragon's son (idiom); sumptuous banquet |
| 饕餮纹 (饕餮紋) | tāo tiè wén | zoomorphic mask motif |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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