禽

禽 (Kangxi radical 114, 禸+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜山月 (OYUB), four-corner 8042₇, composition ⿱𠆢离)

• 噙 擒 檎 蠄
• 𠘅 𢢬 𤢌 𦡬 𥋼 𥼝 𦔟 𧴐 𨆓 𪒭 𣍗 𧈛
• 𮓄 𮮓

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 848, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24893
• Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 199, character 4
• Unihan data for U+79BD

Historical forms of the character 禽
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In oracle bone inscriptions, pictogram (象形) of a net, originally the same character as 𠦒 and 畢. In bronze inscriptions, the phonetic component 今 (OC *krɯm) was added, making the character phono-semantic (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrɯm) . This form was borrowed for its modern meaning, and the original meaning of "capture" came to be represented by 擒 (OC *ɡrɯm).

In the modern form, 今 has corrupted into 人 and 𠦒 into 离. Compare with 畢.

禽

1. (literary) birds and beasts
2. birds (as a general category); fowl

   禽流感  ―  qínliúgǎn  ―  bird flu

3. ^† Alternative form of 擒 (“to capture; to catch”)
4. a surname

• (birds): 鳥類／鸟类 (niǎolèi)

• “禽”, 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–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. bird
2. (more specifically) chicken

• Go-on: ごん (gon)^{←ごむ (gomu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きん (kin)^{←きむ (kimu, historical)}
• Kun: とり (tori, 禽)、とりこ (toriko, 禽)
• Nanori: とり (tori)

• 家(か)禽(きん) (kakin): domestic fowl, poultry
• 禽(とり)将(しょう)棋(ぎ) (torishōgi)

Rarely used in modern Japanese. The character 鳥 is used instead to spell the tori reading.

禽 (eumhun 날짐승 금 (naljimseung geum))

1. hanja form^? of 금 (“birds, fowl, winged animals”)

禽: Hán Nôm readings: cầm

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