雛

雛 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 心山人土 (PUOG), four-corner 2041₄, composition ⿰芻隹)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1368, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42121
• Dae Jaweon: page 1874, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4105, character 6
• Unihan data for U+96DB

Historical forms of the character 雛
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zro) : phonetic 芻 (OC *sʰro) + semantic 隹 (“bird”).

雛

1. chick; fledgling

   • 是月也，天子乃以雛嘗黍，羞以含桃，先薦寢廟。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     是月也，天子乃以雏尝黍，羞以含桃，先荐寝庙。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Shìyuè yě, tiānzǐ nǎi yǐ chú cháng shǔ, xiū yǐ hán táo, xiān jiàn qǐnmiào.

     In this month, the Son of Heaven partakes of millet along with pullets, and with cherries set forth beside them, first offering a portion in the apartment behind the ancestral temple.

2. infant; toddler
3. young; small
4. Used in 鵷雛／鹓雏.
5. a surname

• “雛”, 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, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鶵)

• Go-on: じゅ (ju)
• Kan-on: す (su)
• Kan’yō-on: すう (sū)
• Kun: ひな (hina, 雛)、ひいな (hīna, 雛)、ひよこ (hiyoko, 雛)、ひよっこ (hiyokko, 雛)

*/pina/ → /fina/ → /hina/

Appears to be from Old Japanese. The derivative form hiwina (later hīna) appears in The Tale of Genji, dated to before 1021.^[1]

• (Tokyo) ひな (Atamadaka – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

雛(ひな) • (hina) 

1. a type of small doll, typically standing upright in the Heian period, changing style to a seated posture in the Muromachi period
2. short for 雛祭り (Hina matsuri)
3. a chick, a young bird: see the reading hiyoko below

雛(ひな) • (hina-) 

1. diminutive prefix, carrying favorable connotations such as a sense of cuteness

*/pipina/ → */fifina/ → /fiwina/ → /hiːna/

Possibly an alteration of a reduplicated form hinahina.

• (Tokyo) ひいな (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

雛(ひいな) • (hīna) ^{←ひひな (fifina)?}

1. (archaic) doll

This reading with the long ī is archaic. In modern Japanese, the shorter reading hina is more common for this sense.

*/pijoko/ → /fijoko/ → /hijoko/

Compound of ひよ (hiyo, “onomatopoeia for the sound a chick makes”) +‎ 子 (ko, “diminutive suffix”).

Possibly related to Middle Korean 비〮육 (píyùk), whence modern Korean 병아리 (byeong'ari, “chick”).

• (Tokyo) ひよこ (Heiban – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

雛(ひよこ) • (hiyoko) 

1. chick, young bird
2. child; youngling, greenhorn

/hijoko/ → /hijokko/

Alteration of hiyoko above. The geminate kk sound emphasizes the diminutiveness.

• (Tokyo) ひよっこ (Heiban – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

雛(ひよっこ) • (hiyokko) 

1. a chick, a young bird
2. a child; a youngling, a greenhorn

From Middle Chinese. Most reconstructions of the original Middle Chinese reading start with an affricate, so this Japanese reading may have come from a dialect; compare Hakka reading ts'u¹.

• IPA^(key):

雛(すう) • (sū) 

1. young, new, a greenhorn

Only used in compounds.

雛 (eum 추 (chu))

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雛: Hán Nôm readings: sồ

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