猞 (shē): (in 猞猁) lynx

Meanings

猞猁是一种耳朵上有黑色簇毛的野猫。

Shē lì shì yī zhǒng ěrduo shàng yǒu hēisè cù máo de yěmāo.

The lynx is a wild cat with distinctive black tufts on its ears.

猞猁生活在中国北方的森林和山区里。

Shē lì shēnghuó zài Zhōngguó běifāng de sēnlín hé shānqū lǐ.

Lynx live in the forests and mountains of northern China.

usage

猞 is a bound character: it appears only in 猞猁 shēlì, the lynx. It is never used on its own.

radical

犭 quǎn

dog; animal (radical form of 犬)

The side-form animal radical 犭, a slimmed 犬 dog, marks 猞 as a wild animal, the same radical found in 猫 cat and 狼 wolf.

phonetic

舍 shè

house; to give up (here phonetic)

Right is 舍, supplying the sound shē. It contributes only the reading for this bound animal name.

猞 shē