Translingual

Han character

鶯 (radical 196 鳥+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 火火月竹火 (FFBHF), four-corner 9932₇, composition ⿱𤇾鳥)

1. oriole
2. greenfinch

References

• KangXi: page 1496, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47169
• Dae Jaweon: page 2025, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4653, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9DAF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

鶯

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. nightingale

Readings

• Goon: おう (ō)
• Kan’on: よう (yō)
• Kun: うぐいす (uguisu)

Compounds

Etymology

/uguhi₁su/: *[ugupisu] > [uguɸisu] > [uguwisu] > [uguisu].

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) うぐ​いす [ùgúꜜìsù] (Nakadaka - [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɯᵝɡ̃ɯᵝisɯᵝ]

Noun

鶯 ‎(hiragana うぐいす, katakana ウグイス, romaji uguisu, historical hiragana うぐひす)

1. Japanese bush warbler
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 824)

     烏梅乃波奈 知良麻久怨之美 和我曽乃々 多気乃波也之尓 于具比須奈久母

   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 827)

     波流佐礼婆 許奴礼我久利弖 宇具比須曽 奈岐弖伊奴奈流 烏梅我志豆延尓 _{小典山氏若麻呂}

   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 837)

     波流能努尓 奈久夜汙隅比須 奈都気牟得 和何弊能曽能尓 汙米何波奈佐久 _{笇師志氏大道}

   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4495)

     打奈婢久 波流等毛之流久 宇具比須波 宇恵木之樹間乎 奈枳和多良奈牟

   • 905 Kokin Wakashū (poem #14)

     うぐひすの谷よりいづる声なくははるくることを誰かしらまし

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

• Kojima, Noriyuki; Arai Eizō (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 5: Kokin Wakashū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240005-0
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-240001-3, published 1999.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-4-00-240004-4, published 2003.

Korean

Hanja

鶯 • ‎(aeng) (hangeul 앵, revised aeng, McCune-Reischauer aeng, Yale ayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鶯 (oanh, anh)

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