鷖

Translingual

Han character

鷖 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹日火 (SEHAF), four-corner 7732₇, composition ⿱殹鳥)

1. seagull

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1499, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47267
• Dae Jaweon: page 2029, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4656, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9DD6

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

鷖

1. seagull

   • 鳬好沒，鷖好浮。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     凫好没，鹥好浮。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 陸佃 Lu Dian,《埤雅》Piya, late 11^th century CE.

     Fú hǎo mò, yī hǎo fú.

     The wild ducks like to dive; the seagulls like to float.

   • 駟玉虯以乘鷖兮，溘埃風余上徵。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     驷玉虬以乘鹥兮，溘埃风余上征。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Sì yùqiú yǐ chéng yī xī, kè āifēng yú shàngzhēng.

     Riding a motley shade gull, hitched to a jade hornless dragon quadriga, I’m suddenly journeying upward on a dust-flown wind.

Usage notes

Wang Yi glosses 鷖 as 「鷖，鳳皇別名也。」 ("a nickname of the fenghuang").

Compounds

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B06169
• “鷖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)
• Kun: かもめ (kamome)

Korean

Hanja

鷖 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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