Translingual

Han character

鵺 (radical 196 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input XXX卜月 (XXXYB) or 卜大竹日火 (YKHAF))

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References

• KangXi: page 1493, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47030
• Dae Jaweon: page 2023, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4643, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9D7A

Japanese

鵺(nue)

Etymology

/nue₂/: [nuye] → [nue].

Alternative forms

• 鵼

Noun

鵺 ‎(hiragana ぬえ, romaji nue)

1. a type of bird, Zoothera dauma; common name: White's Thrush
   • 712, Kojiki

     [...] 阿遠夜麻邇 奴延波那伎 佐怒都登理 岐藝斯波登與牟 [...]

   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 7, page 21:

     鵼 唐韵云 鵼 音空 漢語抄云 沼江 新撰字鏡 鵺 鵼 並訓奴江 按奴延見古事記八千戈神歌 万葉集奴延鳥奴要子鳥即是 [...] 今俗呼鬼都具美 [...] 按關東俗呼虎都具美 恠鳥也

2. a mystical creature with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the tail of a snake, and the legs of a tiger; similar to a chimera
   • p. 1221, Heike Monogatari (volume 4)

     其時上下手々に火をともいて、これを御らんじみ給ふに、かしらは猿、むくろは狸、尾はくちなは、手足は虎の姿なり。なく聲鵼にぞにたりける。おそろしなどもをろか也。[...]去る應保のころほひ、二条院御在位の時、鵼といふ化鳥禁中にないて、しば々々宸襟をなやます事ありき。[...]ころはさ月廿日あまりの、まだよひの事なるに、鵼たゞ一聲おとづれて、二聲ともなかざりけり。[...]頼政はかりことに、まづおほかぶらをとてつがひ、鵼の聲しつる内裏のうへへぞいあげたる。鵼かぶらのをとにおどろいて、虚空にしばしひゝめいたり。二の矢に小鏑ととつがひ、ひふつとゐきて、鵼とかぶらとならべて前にぞおとしたる。[...]頼政にかづけ給ふとて、「昔の養由は雲の外の鴈をいき。今の頼政は雨のうちに鵼をゐたり」とぞ感ぜられける。

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: や (ya)
• Kun: ぬえ (nue)

References

• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 978-4-653-00507-0, published 1968.
• 1957, Yutaka Tsuchihashi, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Kodai Kayōshū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-060003-6
• Takagi, Ichinosuke; Masao Ozawa, Kaoru Atsumi, Haruhiko Kindaichi (after 1221) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 32: Heike Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-060032-X, published 1959

Mandarin

Hanzi

鵺 ‎(Pinyin yè (ye4), Wade-Giles yeh⁴)

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