囀

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See also: 𫝚 and 啭
囀 U+56C0, 囀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56C0
← 嚿
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 囁 →

Translingual

Traditional 囀
Shinjitai
(extended) 		𫝚
Simplified 啭

Han character

囀 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口十十戈 (RJJI), four-corner 65043, composition ⿰口轉)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 214, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4614
  • Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 705, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+56C0

Chinese

trad. 囀
simp. 啭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (專) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
竱 *toːn, *tjonʔ
團 *doːn
摶 *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿 *doːn, *tjon
慱 *doːn
剸 *doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
鄟 *doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
漙 *doːn
鷒 *doːn, *tjon
轉 *tonʔ, *tons
傳 *tons, *don, *dons
囀 *tons
縳 *donʔ, *dons
專 *tjon
磚 *tjon
甎 *tjon
塼 *tjon
嫥 *tjon
膞 *tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
鱄 *tjon, *tjonʔ
蓴 *djun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tons) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 轉 (OC *tonʔ, *tons).

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 囀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 知戀切
Baxter trjwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʈˠiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȶiuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈwianH/
Li
Rong 		/ȶjuɛnH/
Wang
Li 		/ȶĭwɛnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȶi̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhuàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zyun3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 囀
Reading # 1/1
No. 17677
Phonetic
component 		專
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		囀
Old
Chinese 		/*tons/
Notes 見繁欽牋

Definitions

囀

  1. (of birds) to sing, to chirp, to warble, to twitter

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

𫝚

Kyūjitai

囀

Kanji

囀

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𫝚)

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Readings

  • Go-on: てん (ten)
  • Kan-on: てん (ten)
  • Kun: さえずる (saezuru, 囀る)

Korean

Hanja

囀 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

囀: Hán Nôm readings: chuyển

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References

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