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Translingual

Han character

(radical 196 +2, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大弓竹日火 (KNHAF), four-corner 47027, composition)

  1. pigeon
  2. collect, assemble

References

  • KangXi: page 1481, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46648
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2013, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4613, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+9CE9

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰuː
*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
*qʰruː
*ku
*ku
*kuʔ
*kus
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*kʷrɯwʔ
*kʷrɯwʔ
氿 *kʷrɯwʔ
*kʷrɯwʔ
*kuɡ
*qʰʷoɡ

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. a type of bird
  2. (vulgar, Cantonese) **** (a substitution for the rarer word 𨳊)

Interfix

  1. (vulgar) ****
    / [Guangzhou Cantonese]   Mat1gau1 si6 aa3 nei5? [Jyutping]   What the **** is wrong with you?

Related terms


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. pigeon, dove
  2. (in compounds) to gather together (from the way that pigeons flock together)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

(hato): a pigeon, a dove.
Kanji in this term
はと
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Possibly onomatopoeia from the hatahata sound of a dove or pigeon's wings in flight.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana はと, katakana ハト, romaji hato)

  1. a pigeon, a dove: a bird of genus Columba

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as ハト.

Idioms

Derived terms

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

(gu) (hangeul , revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cưu)

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