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Chinese
Pronunciation
Note: zeoi1 gau1 - usually avoided for euphemism.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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雎
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鳩
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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jū
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jiū
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tshjo ›
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‹ kjuw ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*a/
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/*(r)u/
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| English
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雎鳩 tshjo.kjuw an aquatic bird
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(a kind of bird)
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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雎
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鳩
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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10422
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6939
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Phonetic
component
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且
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九
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Rime
group
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魚
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幽
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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疽
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鳩
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Old
Chinese
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/*sʰa/
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/*ku/
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Noun
雎鳩
- (literary) a kind of waterbird with a dark brown upper body, white lower body and sharp talons suited to catching fish
Usage notes
Zheng Qiao (apud Elvin 2010) proposes that 雎鳩 denotes the mallards, as ospreys cannot make the sounds "guan-guan".[1] Zhu Xi also describes the 雎鳩 as resembling the 鳧鷖／凫鹥 (“wild duck and seagull”).[2] Arthur Waley translates 王雎, 雎鳩's synonym, as "royal-coot".[2][3]
References
- ^ Elvin, Mark (2010). "Introductions", in H. U. Vogel; G. N. Dux, eds. (2010). Concepts of nature: a Chinese-European cross-cultural perspective. Vol. 1. Brill. →ISBN. p. 77
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zhu Xi,《詩經集傳》Collected Commentaries on the Classic of Poetry, "volume 1"
- ^ Song Yu, 《高唐賦》("The Gao Tang Rhapsody"). Quote:「王雎鸝黃，正冥楚鳩。」. Waley's translation "the royal-coot, he yellow witwall, herald-of-dusk, warbler of Chu," in Minford, J. and Lau, S. M. (2000, 2002) Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations: Volume I: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 276
Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of 雎鳩 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 雎鳩, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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