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Translingual

Han character

(radical 196 +8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜木竹日火 (YDHAF), four-corner 07427, composition)

  1. quail

References

  • KangXi: page 1493, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47057
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2023, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4642, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+9D89

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjuː, *tuːn
*tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns
*duːlʔ, *duːls, *djun
*duːls
*duːls
*duːls
*duːls
*doːn
*doːn, *djun
*tuːn, *tjun
*tuːn
*tuːn
*tuːns, *tʰuːn, *duːn
*tʰuːn, *djun
*tʰuːn, *duːn
*tʰuːn
*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
*tjun, *tjuns
*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
*tjuns
*djun
*djun
*njun

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑʷin/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑwin/
Li
Rong
/ʑiuĕn/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chún
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzywin ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]ur/
English quail

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2596 2618
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːn/ /*djun/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
うずら
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana うずら, katakana ウズラ, romaji uzura, historical hiragana うづら)

  1. (zoology) quail, Coturnix japonica

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
  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

(sun, dan) (hangeul , , revised sun, dan, McCune-Reischauer sun, tan, Yale swun, tan)

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