鴕

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See also: 鸵
鴕 U+9D15, 鴕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D15
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鴖 →

Translingual

Han character

鴕 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹火十心 (HFJP), four-corner 23311, composition ⿰鳥它)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1485, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46774
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2017, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4626, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9D15

Chinese

trad. 鴕
simp. 鸵
alternative forms 𪂊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (它) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
佗 *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːl
拕 *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːlʔ
它 *l̥ʰaːl
蛇 *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal
袉 *l̥ʰaːlʔ, *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ
鴕 *l'aːl
駝 *l'aːl
紽 *l'aːl
鮀 *l'aːl
陀 *l'aːl
沱 *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ
跎 *l'aːl
詑 *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ, *hlel, *lal, *l̥ʰoːl
酡 *l'aːl
迱 *l'aːl
舵 *l'aːlʔ
柁 *l'aːlʔ
鉈 *ɦljaːl, *hljal

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aːl) : semantic 鳥 (“bird”) + phonetic 它 (OC *l̥ʰaːl).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鴕
Reading # 1/1
No. 12213
Phonetic
component 		它
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*l'aːl/

Definitions

鴕

  1. ostrich

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

鴕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): た (ta)、だ (da)

Korean

Hanja

鴕 • (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune–Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鴕: Hán Nôm readings: đà

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