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Translingual

Han character

(radical 196 +13, 24 strokes, cangjie input 戈土竹日火 (IGHAF), four-corner 00227, composition)

  1. eagle
  2. falcon
  3. hawk

References

  • KangXi: page 1501, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47377
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2031, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4666, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9DF9

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qɯŋ, *qɯŋs
*qɯŋ
*qɯŋ
*qɯŋs
*qɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯŋ) : phonetic  (OC *qɯŋ) + semantic  (bird).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʔiəŋ/
Wang
Li
/ĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yīng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔing ›
Old
Chinese
/*[q](r)əŋ/
English eagle, falcon

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 # 1/1
No. 15347
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯŋ/
Notes

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. eagle
  2. falcon
  3. hawk

Readings

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
たか
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Noun

(hiragana たか, katakana タカ, romaji taka)

  1. a hawk (predatory bird)

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(eung) (hangeul , revised eung, McCune-Reischauer ŭng, Yale ung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Readings