鵜

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See also: 鹈

鵜	U+9D5C, 鵜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D5C

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

鵜 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金竹竹日火 (CHHAF), four-corner 8722₇, composition ⿰弟鳥)

pelican

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1490, character 30
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46952
Dae Jaweon: page 2021, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4637, character 11
Unihan data for U+9D5C

Chinese

trad.		鵜
simp.		鹈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弟) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
梯	*tʰiːl
睇	tʰiːl, diːls
涕	tʰiːlʔ, tʰiːls
挮	*tʰiːlʔ
鬀	tʰiːls, diːls
剃	*tʰiːls
綈	*diːl
蕛	*diːl
稊	*diːl
苐	*diːl
鵜	*diːl
銻	*diːl
鮷	*diːl
罤	*diːl
弟	diːlʔ, diːls
娣	diːlʔ, diːls
悌	diːlʔ, diːls
第	*diːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *diːl) : phonetic 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tí (ti²)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tai⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tí
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tí
  - Wade–Giles: tʻi²
  - Yale: tí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyi
  - Palladius: ти (ti)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tai⁴
  - Yale: tàih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tei⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐi̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: dej

Rime
Character	鵜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	杜奚切
Baxter	dej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dei/
Pan Wuyun	/dei/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛj/
Li Rong	/dei/
Wang Li	/diei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tai⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*diːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鵜
Reading #	1/1
No.	2290
Phonetic component	弟
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嗁
Old Chinese	/*diːl/

Definitions

鵜

Only used in 鵜鶘／鹈鹕 (tíhú).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 鵜

鵜

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

cormorant

Readings

Go-on: だい (dai)
Kan-on: てい (tei)
Kun: う (u, 鵜)

Etymology

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

ウ科

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Cormorant

Kanji in this term
鵜
う Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Possibly onomatopoeia of the bird's cry. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) う (Atamadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

鵜(う) or 鵜(ウ) • (u)

a cormorant (seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae)
Synonym: 島つ鳥 (shimatsutori, shimatsudori)

Hypernym: ペリカン (perikan)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Idioms

鵜(う)の目(め)鷹(たか)の目(め) (u no me taka no me)

Proverbs

鵜(う)の真(ま)似(ね)をする烏(からす) (u no mane o suru karasu)
烏(からす)が鵜(う)の真似(まね) (karasu ga u no mane)
烏(からす)を鵜(う)に使(つか)う (karasu o u ni tsukau)

Proper noun

鵜(う) • (U)

a surname

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鵜 • (je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune–Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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