Translingual

Han character

雛 (radical 172 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 心山人土 (PUOG), four-corner 2041₄)

1. chick, fledgling
2. infant, toddler

References

• KangXi: page 1368, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42121
• Dae Jaweon: page 1874, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4105, character 6
• Unihan data for U+96DB

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 雛
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zro) : phonetic 芻 ‎(OC *sʰro) + semantic 隹 ‎(“bird”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

雛

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Compounds

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鶵)

Readings

• Goon: じゅ (ju)
• Kan’on: す (su)
• Kan’yōon: すう (sū)
• Kun: ひな (hina), ひいな, (hīna), ひよこ (hiyoko), ひよっこ (hiyokko)

Etymology 1

雛 (hina): Emperor and Empress hina dolls, in front of gold screens. The optional lampstands are also partially visible.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ひ​な [híꜜnà] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [çĩna̠]

Noun

雛 ‎(hiragana ひな, romaji hina)

1. a type of small doll, typically standing upright in the Heian period, changing style to a seated posture in the Muromachi period
2. short for 雛祭り ‎(Hina matsuri)
3. a chick, a young bird: see the reading hiyoko below

Prefix

雛 ‎(hiragana ひな, romaji hina)

1. diminutive prefix, carrying favorable connotations such as a sense of cuteness

Compounds

Etymology 2

/hihina/ → /hiːna/

Possibly an alteration of reduplicated hinahina.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ひ​いな [híꜜìnà] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [çiːna̠]

Noun

雛 ‎(hiragana ひいな, romaji hīna, historical hiragana ひひな)

1. (archaic) doll

Usage notes

This reading with the long ī is archaic. In modern Japanese, the shorter reading hina is more common for this sense.

Compounds

Etymology 3

雛 (hiyoko): A baby chicken (chick), Gallus gallus domesticus

Compound of ひよ ‎(hiyo, “onomatopoeia for the sound a chick makes”) +‎ 子 ‎(ko, “diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ひよこ [hìyókó] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [çijo̞ko̞]

Noun

雛 ‎(hiragana ひよこ, romaji hiyoko)

1. chick, young bird
2. child; youngling, greenhorn

Compounds

Etymology 4

/hijoko/ → /hijokko/

Alteration of hiyoko above. The geminate kk sound emphasizes the diminutiveness.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ひよっこ [hìyókkó] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [çijo̞k̚ko̞]

Noun

雛 ‎(hiragana ひよっこ, romaji hiyokko)

1. a chick, a young bird
2. a child; a youngling, a greenhorn

Etymology 5

Middle Chinese. Most reconstructions of the original Middle Chinese reading start with an affricate, so this Japanese reading may have come from a dialect; compare Hakka reading ts'u¹.

Pronunciation

• Kan'yōyomi
• IPA^(key): [sɯᵝː]

Affix

雛 ‎(hiragana すう, romaji sū)

1. young, new, a greenhorn

Usage notes

Only used in compounds.

Compounds

References

1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 3 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

雛 • ‎(chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雛 (sồ)

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