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鸛

鸛

See also: 鹳

Translingual

Han character

鸛 (radical 196 鳥+18, 29 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹日火 (TGHAF), four-corner 47227)

References

  • KangXi: page 1504, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47500
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2034, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4670, character 22
  • Unihan data for U+9E1B

Chinese

trad. 鸛
simp. 鹳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (雚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觀 *koːn, *koːns
灌 *koːns
鸛 *koːns
瓘 *koːns
矔 *koːns, *kroːns
懽 *koːns, *qʰoːn
爟 *koːns
雚 *koːns
罐 *koːns
鑵 *koːns
歡 *qʰoːn
驩 *qʰoːn
貛 *qʰoːn
酄 *qʰoːn
獾 *qʰoːn
讙 *qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾 *qʰoːns
權 *ɡron
顴 *ɡron
孉 *ɡron
蠸 *ɡron
虇 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸 *kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːns) : phonetic 雚 ‎(OC *koːns) + semantic 鳥 ‎(“bird”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鸛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古玩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwanH/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鸛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qʷˤar-s/
English heron

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 鸛
Reading # 1/1
No. 4479
Phonetic
component		 雚
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 貫
Old
Chinese		 /*koːns/
Notes 同雚見詩經

Definitions

鸛

  1. crane (Grus japonensis)
  2. stork

Compounds

  • 鸛雀樓／鹳雀楼
  • 鸛骨／鹳骨

Japanese

鸛 (kōnotori)

Kanji

鸛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鸛
こうのとり
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

鵠 ‎(kō, “swan”) +‎ の ‎(no, “'s”) +‎ 鳥 ‎(tori, “bird”)

Pronunciation

Noun

鸛 ‎(hiragana こうのとり, katakana コウノトリ, romaji kōnotori, historical hiragana こふのとり)

  1. Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana)

Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 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

鸛 • ‎(gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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