鸛

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See also: 鹳 and ⿰𮥶鳥
鸛 U+9E1B, 鸛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E1B
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鸜 →

Translingual

Traditional 鸛
Shinjitai
(extended) 		⿰𮥶鳥
Simplified 鹳

Han character

鸛 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+18, 29 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹日火 (TGHAF), four-corner 47227, composition ⿰雚鳥)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1504, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47500
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2034, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4670, character 22
  • Unihan data for U+9E1B

Chinese

trad. 鸛
simp. 鹳
alternative forms 雚

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (雚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觀 *koːn, *koːns
灌 *koːns
鸛 *koːns
瓘 *koːns
矔 *koːns, *kroːns
懽 *koːns, *qʰoːn
爟 *koːns
雚 *koːns
罐 *koːns
鑵 *koːns
歡 *qʰoːn
驩 *qʰoːn
貛 *qʰoːn
酄 *qʰoːn
獾 *qʰoːn
讙 *qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾 *qʰoːns
權 *ɡron
顴 *ɡron
孉 *ɡron
蠸 *ɡron
虇 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸 *kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːns) : phonetic 雚 (OC *koːns, “stork”) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”). Originally written 雚.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鸛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古玩切
Baxter kwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwanH/
Li
Rong 		/kuɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/kuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gun3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鸛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kwanH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.qʷˁar-s/
English heron

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 鸛
Reading # 1/1
No. 4479
Phonetic
component 		雚
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		貫
Old
Chinese 		/*koːns/
Notes 同雚見詩經

Definitions

鸛

  1. stork
  2. crane (Grus japonensis)
  3. Used in 鵝鸛／鹅鹳 (éguàn).

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

⿰𮥶鳥

Kyūjitai

鸛

Kanji

鸛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰𮥶鳥)

  1. stork

Readings

Etymology 1

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鸛 (kōnotori): an Oriental stork
Kanji in this term
鸛
こうのとり
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Compound of 鸛 (kō, “Oriental stork”, see below) +‎ の (no, attributive particle) +‎ 鳥 (tori, “bird”).

Pronunciation

Noun

鸛(こうのとり) or 鸛(コウノトリ) • (kōnotori) ←こふのとり (kofunotori) or コフノトリ (kofunotori)?

  1. Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana)
    Synonym: 鸛鶴 (kōzuru)
  2. (by extension) any stork
Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as コウノトリ.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鸛
こう
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

/kan/ → /kau/ → /koː/

Pronunciation

Noun

鸛(こう) or 鸛(コウ) • (kō) ←こふ (kofu) or コフ (kofu)?

  1. Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as コウ.

Derived terms
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鸛 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune–Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

  1. crane (Grus japonensis)
  2. stork (Ciconia species)

Vietnamese

Han character

鸛: Hán Việt readings: quán

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