Translingual

Han character

鷺 (radical 196 鳥+12, 23 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹日火 (RRHAF), four-corner 6732₇, composition ⿱路鳥)

1. heron, egret

References

• KangXi: page 1501, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47362
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4664, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9DFA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鷺
Large seal script	Small seal script

Pronunciation

Definitions

鷺

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: る (ru)
• Kan’on: ろ (ro)
• On (unclassified): りょ (ryo)
• Kun: さぎ (sagi)

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) さぎ [sàgí] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠ɡ̃i]

Noun

鷺 ‎(hiragana さぎ, katakana サギ, romaji sagi)

1. heron; egret

Derived terms

• 白鷺 ‎(shirasagi, “egret”)
• 黒鷺 ‎(kurosagi, “Pacific reef heron”)
• 蒼鷺 ‎(aosagi, “grey heron”)
• 五位鷺 ‎(goisagi, “black-crowned night heron”)

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

Korean

Hanja

鷺 • ‎(ro>no) (hangeul 로>노, revised ro>no, McCune-Reischauer ro>no, Yale lo>no)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鷺 (lộ)

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