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Chinese
Pronunciation
Note:
- poe-chiáu/pe-chiáu - vernacular;
- hui-niáu - literary.
Noun
飛鳥
- (flying) bird
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Japanese
Etymology 1
/pʷi teu/ → /fit͡ɕeu/ → /hit͡ɕoː/
From Middle Chinese compound 飛鳥 (MC pj+j tewX).
Pronunciation
Noun
飛鳥 • (hichō) ←ひてう (fiteu)?
- a flying bird
- Synonym: 飛禽 (hikin)
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Proper noun
飛鳥 • (Hichō) ←ひてう (Fiteu)?
- a surname
- a male or female given name
Etymology 2
Nominalization of 飛ぶ鳥 (tobu tori, “flying bird”).
Proper noun
飛鳥 • (Tobutori)
- a surname
Etymology 3
From Old Japanese.
Asuka was associated with "flying bird" by Emperor Tenmu for several events of spotting auspicious "red birds" (called 朱雀 or 臘子鳥 in Nihon Shoki) in Asuka during his reign (673–686). Starting from about 689, pillow word 飛鳥 (tobu tori no, “... of flying birds”) began to allude to Asuka, and became an interchangeable kanji spelling of it.[2]
Compare 春日 (Kasuga).
Proper noun
飛鳥 • (Asuka)
- a place name, especially the name of a village in Nara Prefecture
- a surname
- a male or female given name
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