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鴿

鴿

See also: 鸽

Translingual

Han character

鴿 (radical 196 鳥+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人口竹日火 (ORHAF), four-corner 87627)

  1. pigeon, dove

References

  • KangXi: page 1489, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46884
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2020, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4630, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+9D3F

Chinese

trad. 鴿
simp. 鸽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鴿
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
龕 *kʰuːm
媕 *quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜 *ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答 *tkuːb
畣 *tkuːb
荅 *tkuːb
嗒 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡 *tuːb, *toːb
撘 *tuːb
搭 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙 *tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮 *tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤 *kuːb
鴿 *kuːb
合 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌 *kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿 *kuːb
閤 *kuːb
鞈 *kuːb, *kruːb
韐 *kuːb, *kruːb
鮯 *kuːb
哈 *ŋɡuːb
姶 *quːb, *quːb
欱 *qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒 *ɡuːb
耠 *ɡuːb
詥 *ɡuːb
塔 *tʰuːb
鞳 *tʰoːb
劄 *rtuːb
跲 *kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷 *kruːb, *ŋkob
餄 *kruːb
恰 *kʰruːb
帢 *kʰruːb
洽 *ɡruːb
祫 *ɡruːb
珨 *ɡruːb
烚 *ɡruːb
歙 *qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁 *tkʰub
拾 *ɡjub
給 *krub
翕 *qʰrub
噏 *qʰrub
潝 *qʰrub
熻 *qʰrub
嬆 *qʰrub
翖 *qʰrub
闟 *qʰrub

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 鴿
Mandarin Beijing /kɤ⁵⁵/
Harbin /kɤ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kɤ⁴⁵/
Jinan /kə²¹³/
Qingdao /ka⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kɤ²⁴/
Xi'an /kɤ²¹/
Xining /ku⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kə¹³/
Lanzhou /kə¹³/
Ürümqi /kɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /kuo²¹³/
Chengdu /ko³¹/
Guiyang /ko²¹/
Kunming /ko³¹/
Nanjing /koʔ⁵/
Hefei /kɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kaʔ²/
Pingyao /kʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kəʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /kø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /kən²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ko²⁴/
Xiangtan /ko²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kɵʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kap̚¹/
Taoyuan /kɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɐp̚³/
/kap̚³/
Nanning /kɐp̚³³/
Hong Kong /kɐp̚³/
/kap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kap̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kap̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kap̚⁵/
Rime
Character 鴿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 合 (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古沓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kəp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəp̚/
Li
Rong		 /kᴀp̚/
Wang
Li		 /kɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ge
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鴿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kop ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤ[ə]p/ (no pre-Qín exx.)
English dove [not in GSR]

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 鴿
Reading # 1/1
No. 4954
Phonetic
component		 合
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 閤
Old
Chinese		 /*kuːb/

Definitions

鴿

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Compounds

  • 肉鴿／肉鸽
  • 菜鴿子／菜鸽子
  • 警鴿／警鸽
  • 賽鴿／赛鸽
  • 野鴿／野鸽
  • 飛鴿傳書／飞鸽传书
  • 餐鴿／餐鸽
  • 馴鴿／驯鸽
  • 鴿子／鸽子 (gēzi)
  • 鴿子籠／鸽子笼
  • 鴿市／鸽市
  • 鴿樓／鸽楼
  • 鴿派／鸽派
  • 鵓鴿／鹁鸽

Japanese

Kanji

鴿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
鴿
はと
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

鴿 ‎(hiragana はと, katakana ハト, romaji hato)

  1. Alternative spelling of 鳩: pigeon; dove

Vietnamese

Han character

鴿 (cáp)

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