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雀

雀

Translingual

Han character

雀 (radical 172 隹+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火人土 (FOG), four-corner 90214, composition ⿱小隹)

References

  • KangXi: page 1364, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41954
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1868, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4091, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+96C0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 雀

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 小 ‎(“small”) + 隹 ‎(“bird”) – a small bird, a sparrow. Note that the upper part looks like 少, but what looks like the bottom of 少 is actually the upper left stroke of 隹, extended.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 雀
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰyɛ⁵¹/
/t͡ɕʰiɑu²¹⁴/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰiau²¹³/
/t͡ɕʰyɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰiɑu²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰyə²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sʰyə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰyo²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰiau⁵³/
Xining /t͡ɕʰiɔ⁵³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰiɔ⁵³/
/t͡ɕʰye¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰyə¹³/
/t͡ɕʰiɔ⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰyɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰio²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰyo³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰio²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰio³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰoʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰyɐʔ⁵/
/t͡ɕʰiɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰiəʔ²/ 麻～
/t͡ɕʰiau⁵³/ ～兒
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰiɔ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰiɑʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰiɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰiɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡siun²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰio²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰio²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡siok̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡siok̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sœk̚³/
Nanning /t͡sʰœk̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sœk̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/
/t͡siaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰiɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡siauʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /siɔk̚⁵/
Rime
Character 雀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即略切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡siɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sɨak̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siak̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jue
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 雀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 què
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ewk/
English sparrow

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 雀
Reading # 1/1
No. 10745
Phonetic
component		 雀
Rime
group		 藥
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 爵
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsewɢ/

Definitions

雀

  1. sparrow
  2. (Cantonese) bird
    雀竇 / 雀窦 [Cantonese]  ―  zoek3 dau3 [Jyutping]  ―  bird nest

See also

  • (Mandarin) 鳥／鸟 (niǎo)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

雀

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. sparrow

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
雀
すずめ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

雀 ‎(hiragana すずめ, katakana スズメ, romaji suzume)

  1. tree sparrow

Synonyms

  • 黄雀 (こうじゃく) ‎(kōjaku)

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

雀 • ‎(jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune-Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雀 (tước)

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