投畀豺虎

Chinese

	to throw; to send	confer on; give to	dhole and tiger; jackal; ruthless and conniving person
trad. (投畀豺虎)	投	畀	豺虎
simp. ^#(投畀豺虎)	投	畀	豺虎
Literally: “to throw to the dholes and tigers”.

From Shijing:

取彼譖人，投畀豺虎。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]

取彼谮人，投畀豺虎。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Qǔ bǐ zènrén, tóu bì cháihǔ. [Pinyin]

I would take those slanderers,
And throw them to dholes and tigers.

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤo pi[t]-s [dz]ˤrə qʰˤraʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*doː pids zrɯː qʰlaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	投	畀	豺	虎
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tóu	bì	chái	hǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ duw ›	‹ pjij^H ›	‹ dzreaj ›	‹ xu^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁo/	/*pi[t]-s/	/*[dz]ˁrə/	/qʰˁraʔ/ (W dialect: qˁʰr- >r̥ˁ- > x-)
English	throw	give	wolf	tiger
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

投畀豺虎

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