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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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黃
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鳥
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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huáng
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niǎo
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ hwang ›
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‹ tewX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*N-kʷˁaŋ/
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/*tˁiwʔ/
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| English
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yellow
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bird
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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.
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Noun
黃鳥
- black-naped oriole
黃鳥于飛、集于灌木、其鳴喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
黄鸟于飞、集于灌木、其鸣喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Huángniǎo yú fēi, jí yú guànmù, qí míng jiējiē.
- The yellow orioles flew about, and collected on the thickly growing trees; their pleasant notes resounding far.
翩翩黃鳥，雌雄相依。
念我之獨；誰其與歸？ [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]- From: Yuri of Goguryeo,《黃鳥歌》"Song of the Yellow Bird",
- Pyeonpyeon hwangjo, ja-ung sang-ui.
Nyeom a ji dok, su gi yeo gwi? [Sino-Korean] - Lightly and sprightly fly the yellow orioles, the female and male lean on each other.
I think of my loneliness; whom will I go back with?
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Further reading
- Ptak, Roderich & Zhang, Yanfei. (2016). "Huangniao , canggeng und ‚verwandte‘ Vogelnamen in Zhou- und Han-Texten: Ein Beitrag zur historischen Ornithologie (Huangniao, canggeng and 'related' bird-names in Zhou and Han texts: a Contribution to Historical Ornithology)". Monumenta Serica. 64. 303-331.