At night a wildcat slipped quietly into the village.
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貍 is the older written form of 狸 (leopard cat / raccoon dog) and is not used independently in modern Chinese - the dog-radical form 狸 replaced it. It is built from the beast radical 豸 with the phonetic 里.
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Archaic spelling; encountered in old texts and the historical idiom 狸猫换太子 (swapping a cat for the crown prince), not in modern writing.
