鵲

鵲 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿日竹日火 (TAHAF), four-corner 4762₇, composition ⿰昔鳥)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1492, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47014
• Dae Jaweon: page 2022, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4638, character 22
• Unihan data for U+9D72

Historical forms of the character 鵲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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鵲

1. magpie

   Synonym: 喜鵲／喜鹊 (xǐquè)

   • 鶉之奔奔，鵲之彊彊。人之無良，我以為兄。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鹑之奔奔，鹊之彊彊。人之无良，我以为兄。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Chún zhī bēnbēn, què zhī jiāngjiāng. Rén zhī wú liáng, wǒ yǐ wéi xiōng.

     The quails run . The magpies fly . That man is not nice. I call him brother.

• ⇒ Zhuang: roeggacak

• “鵲”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: さく (saku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan’yō-on: じゃく (jaku)
• Kun: かささぎ (kasasagi, 鵲)

• 鵲(ふじ)豆(まめ) (fujimame, “hyacinth bean”)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

カササギ

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Eurasian magpie

Wikipedia

From Old Japanese, first appears in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.^[1]

Derivation unknown, theories include:

• The initial kasa- may be cognate with or a borrowing from an earlier form of Korean 까치 (kkachi, “magpie”).
• The final -sagi may be a reference to the white chest, alluding to the similar plumage of certain kinds of 鷺 (sagi, “heron, egret”).
• Alternatively, the final -sagi may derive from onomatopoeia, imitative of the bird's call.
• May be a corruption of 烏 (karasu, “crow”) + 鷺 (sagi, “heron, egret”):

  /karasu saɡi/ → */kasːaɡi/ → /kasasaɡi/

• May be a corruption of カラ (kara, onomatopoeia for cawing, seen in 烏 (karasu), “crow”) + 鷦鷯 (sasagi, “wren”, obsolete):

  /kara sasaɡi/ → /kasasaɡi/

• May be a corruption of カチカチ (kachikachi, onomatopoeia imitative of the bird's call) + 鷺 (sagi, “heron, egret”):

  /kat͡ɕikat͡ɕi saɡi/ → */kat̚t͡sasaɡi/ → /kasasaɡi/

• (Tokyo) かささぎ (Heiban – )^[2][3][4]
• (Tokyo) かささぎ (Nakadaka – )^[4]
• IPA^(key):

鵲(かささぎ) or 鵲(カササギ) • (kasasagi) 

1. the Eurasian magpie, Pica pica

   Synonyms: (literally “Goryeo (ancient Korea) crow”) 高麗烏 (Kōrai-garasu), (literally “Joseon (medieval Korea) crow”) 朝鮮烏 (Chōsen-garasu)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カササギ.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:鵲.

• 鵲(かささぎ)の鏡(かがみ) (kasasagi no kagami)
• 鵲(かささぎ)の橋(はし) (kasasagi no hashi)
• 鵲(かささぎ)雁(がん) (kasasagi gan)

鵲(かささぎ) • (Kasasagi) 

1. (historical) an 鴻 (Ōtori)-class torpedo boat of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
2. a surname

From Middle Chinese 鵲 (MC tshjak).

鵲(じゃく) • (jaku) 

1. Eurasian magpie

• 鵲(じゃっ)橋(きょう) (jakkyō)
• 烏(う)鵲(じゃく) (ujaku)
• 山(さん)鵲(じゃく) (sanjaku)

• Entry in Nihon Jiten (in Japanese)

鵲 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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• 산작 (山鵲, sanjak)
• 오작 (烏鵲, ojak)
• 작교 (鵲橋, jakgyo)
• 작보 (鵲報, jakbo)
• 작성 (鵲聲, jakseong)

鵲: Hán Nôm readings: thước

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