鴄

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鴄	U+9D04, 鴄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D04

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

鴄 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+4, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸金竹日火 (SCHAF), four-corner 7772₇, composition ⿰匹鳥)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1483, character 39
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46724
Dae Jaweon: page 2015, character 38
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4618, character 11
Unihan data for U+9D04

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (匹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
匹	*pʰid
鴄	*pʰid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰid) : phonetic 匹 (OC *pʰid) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		鴄
alternative forms		匹

A Southeast Asian areal etymon (STEDT). Compare:

Tai-Kadai: Proto-Tai *pitᴰ (“duck”) > Thai เป็ด (bpèt), Lao ເປັດ (pet), Zhuang bit;
Austroasiatic: Proto-Vietic *viːt (“duck”) > Vietnamese vịt, to which (Alves 2015) proposes a Tai origin;
Sino-Tibetan:
- Miju kɹɑi³⁵ pit⁵⁵ (“duck”);
- Pela pjɛ̱t⁵⁵ (“duck”), Zaiwa pje̱t⁵⁵ (“duck”);
- Proto-Lolo-Burmese *baj¹/² (“duck”) > Burmese ဘဲ (bhai:).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): pǐ, pī (pi³, pi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˇ, ㄆㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pat¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pǐ
  - Wade–Giles: pʻi³
  - Yale: pǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pii
  - Palladius: пи (pi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pī
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pi
  - Wade–Giles: pʻi¹
  - Yale: pī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pi
  - Palladius: пи (pi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: pat¹
  - Yale: pāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: ped¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɐt̚⁵/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*pʰid/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鴄
Reading #	1/1
No.	9738
Phonetic component	匹
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	匹
Old Chinese	/*pʰid/
Notes	禮記孟子作匹

Definitions

鴄

^† duck
- 凡摯，天子鬯，諸侯圭，卿羔，大夫雁，士雉，庶人之摯匹；童子委摯而退。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  凡挚，天子鬯，诸侯圭，卿羔，大夫雁，士雉，庶人之挚匹；童子委挚而退。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE
  Fán zhì, tiānzǐ chàng, zhūhóu guī, qīng gāo, dàfū yàn, shì zhì, shùrén zhī zhì pǐ; tóngzǐ wěi zhì ér tuì.
  By way of presents of introduction, the son of Heaven uses spirits of black millet; feudal princes, their symbols of jade; a high minister, a lamb; a Great officer, a goose; an (ordinary) officer, a pheasant; a common man, a duck. Lads should bring their article, and withdraw.

Compounds

𩿣鴄

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鴄 – see 鵯 (“bulbul”). (This character is a variant form of 鵯).

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