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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹日卜木 (HAYD), four-corner 27904)

References

  • KangXi: page 529, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14861
  • Dae Jaweon: page 918, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1217, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+689F

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*keːw
*keːw
*kʰeːw

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/keu/
Pan
Wuyun
/keu/
Shao
Rongfen
/keu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛw/
Li
Rong
/keu/
Wang
Li
/kieu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13675
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*keːw/

Definitions

  1. owl
  2. brave, fierce
  3. leader, ringleader
  4. to decapitate and hang the head

Compounds


Japanese

Wikispecies

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

フクロウ Strix uralensis
Kanji in this term
ふくろう
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ろう [fùkúꜜròò] (Nakadaka - [2])
  • (Tokyo) くろ [fùkúróꜜò] (Nakadaka - [3])
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̥ᵝkɯᵝɺ̠o̞ː]

Noun

(hiragana ふくろう, katakana フクロウ, romaji fukurō, historical hiragana ふくろふ)

  1. (zoology) an owl
  2. an Ural owl

Korean

Hanja

(hyo) (hangeul , revised hyo, McCune-Reischauer hyo, Yale hyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(kiêu)

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References