鴿

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See also:
鴿 U+9D3F, 鴿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D3F

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

鴿 (Kangxi radical 196, +6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人口竹日火 (ORHAF), four-corner 87627, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1489, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46884
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2020, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4630, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+9D3F

Chinese

trad. 鴿
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鴿
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kuːb) : phonetic (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb) + semantic (bird).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 鴿
Mandarin Beijing /kɤ⁵⁵/
Harbin /kɤ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kɤ⁴⁵/
Jinan /kə²¹³/
Qingdao /ka⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kɤ²⁴/
Xi'an /kɤ²¹/
Xining /ku⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kə¹³/
Lanzhou /kə¹³/
Ürümqi /kɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /kuo²¹³/
Chengdu /ko³¹/
Guiyang /ko²¹/
Kunming /ko³¹/
Nanjing /koʔ⁵/
Hefei /kɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kaʔ²/
Pingyao /kʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kəʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /kø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /kən²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ko²⁴/
Xiangtan /ko²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kɵʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kap̚¹/
Taoyuan /kɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɐp̚³/
/kap̚³/
Nanning /kɐp̚³³/
Hong Kong /kɐp̚³/
/kap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kap̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kap̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kap̚⁵/

Rime
Character 鴿
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter kop
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kəp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəp̚/
Li
Rong
/kᴀp̚/
Wang
Li
/kɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ge
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gap3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鴿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kop ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁp/ (no pre-Qín exx.)
English dove

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鴿
Reading # 1/1
No. 4954
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kuːb/

Definitions

鴿

  1. pigeon; dove
  2. (neologism, Internet slang, humorous) Short for 放鴿子放鸽子 (fàng gēzi).
    鴿  ―  le  ―  to be failed to show up by someone, to ghost

Synonyms

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

鴿

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: こう ()こふ (kofu, historical)
  • Kan-on: こう ()かふ (kafu, historical)
  • Kun: はと (hato, 鴿)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鴿
はと
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鴿 – see the following entry.
はとJ
pigeon, dove (bird of genus Columba)
Alternative spelling
ハト
(This term, 鴿, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Vietnamese

Han character

鴿: Hán Nôm readings: cáp

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