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鳩
鳩
See also: 鸠
Translingual
Han character
鳩 (radical 196 鳥+2, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大弓竹日火 (KNHAF), four-corner 47027, composition ⿰九鳥)
References
- KangXi: page 1481, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46648
- Dae Jaweon: page 2013, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4613, character 13
- Unihan data for U+9CE9
Chinese
| trad. | 鳩 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 鸠 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 鳩
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|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 尻 | *kʰuː |
| 訄 | *kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu |
| 艽 | *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw |
| 虓 | *qʰruː |
| 鳩 | *ku |
| 勼 | *ku |
| 九 | *kuʔ |
| 究 | *kus |
| 仇 | *ɡu |
| 鼽 | *ɡu |
| 犰 | *ɡu |
| 叴 | *ɡu |
| 厹 | *ɡu |
| 頄 | *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw |
| 朹 | *ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 馗 | *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw |
| 扏 | *ɡu |
| 訅 | *ɡu |
| 釚 | *ɡu |
| 肍 | *ɡu |
| 軌 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 宄 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 氿 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 匭 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 泦 | *kuɡ |
| 旭 | *qʰʷoɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ
- Wade-Giles: chiu1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiou
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄤ
- Wade-Giles: ch'iang1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiang
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: kau1, gau1
- Yale: kāu, gāu
- Cantonese Pinyin: kau1, gau1
- IPA (key): /kʰɐu̯⁵⁵/, /kɐu̯⁵⁵/
- Note: kau1 - common for non-vulgar senses; gau1 - common for vulgar senses.
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Noun
鳩
Interfix
鳩
- (vulgar) ****
Related terms
- 斑鳩／斑鸠 (bānjiū, “turtledove”)
- (Cantonese) 戇鳩／戆鸠 (“dumbass”)
- (Cantonese five profanities) 屌 (diǎo), 鳩／鸠, 撚 (niǎn), 柒 (qī), 閪
Japanese
Kanji
鳩
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
Readings
Compounds
Compounds
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 鳩 |
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はと Jinmeiyō |
| kun'yomi |
Possibly onomatopoeia from the hatahata sound of a dove or pigeon's wings in flight.
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
鳩 (hiragana はと, katakana ハト, romaji hato)
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as ハト.
Idioms
Idioms
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Derived terms
Derived terms
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References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0
Korean
Hanja
鳩 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
鳩 (cưu)
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