杜鵑

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See also: 杜鹃

Chinese

fabricate; restrict; to prevent cuckoo
trad. (杜鵑) 杜 鵑
simp. (杜鹃) 杜 鹃

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 杜 鵑
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 模 (23) 先 (86)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) I IV
Fanqie 徒古切 古玄切
Baxter duX kwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/duoX/ /kwen/
Pan
Wuyun 		/duoX/ /kʷen/
Shao
Rongfen 		/doX/ /kuɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dɔX/ /kwɛn/
Li
Rong 		/doX/ /kuen/
Wang
Li 		/duX/ /kiwen/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱuoX/ /kiwen/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dù juān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dou6 gyun1

Noun

杜鵑

  1. (～鳥) cuckoo (bird)
  2. (～花) azalea and rhododendron, especially Rhododendron simsii

Synonyms

  • (cuckoo):

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (杜鵑):
  • → Japanese: 杜(と)鵑(けん) (token)
  • → Korean: 두견(杜鵑) (dugyeon)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
杜 鵑
ほととぎす
Jinmeiyō Hyōgai
jukujikun
For pronunciation and definitions of 杜鵑 – see the following entry.
【ほととぎすホトトギス】
the lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus
Alternative spellings
子規, 時鳥, 杜宇, 田鵑, 蜀魂, 郭公, 不如帰
(This term, 杜鵑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
杜 鵑
と
Jinmeiyō 		けん
Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 杜鵑 (MC duX kwen).

Pronunciation

Noun

杜(と)鵑(けん) • (token) 

  1. the lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
杜鵑

Noun

杜鵑 • (dugyeon) (hangeul 두견)

  1. hanja form? of 두견 (“cuckoo, azalea”)
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