鷗
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Translingual
| Traditional | 鷗 |
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| Shinjitai (extended) |
鴎 |
| Simplified | 鸥 |
Han character
鷗 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸口竹日火 (SRHAF), four-corner 77727, composition ⿰區鳥)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1499, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47268
- Dae Jaweon: page 2029, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4656, character 5
- Unihan data for U+9DD7
Chinese
| trad. | 鷗 | |
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| simp. | 鸥 | |
| alternative forms | 䳼 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 鷗 | |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoː) : phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): êu1
- Eastern Min (BUC): ĕu
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1eu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄡ
- Tongyong Pinyin: ou
- Wade–Giles: ou1
- Yale: ōu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ou
- Palladius: оу (ou)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: au1
- Yale: āu
- Cantonese Pinyin: au1
- Guangdong Romanization: eo1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɐu̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: eu1*
- Sinological IPA (key): /eu³³⁻³³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Hakka
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ĕu
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɛu⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Penang)
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
- Tâi-lô: o
- Phofsit Daibuun: oy
- IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io
- Tâi-lô: io
- Phofsit Daibuun: ioy
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɤ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /io⁴⁴/
Note:
- au - vernacular;
- o͘/o/io - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ao1 / ou1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: au / ou
- Sinological IPA (key): /au³³/, /ou³³/
Note: ou1 - used in place names.
- Middle Chinese: 'uw
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*qoː/
Definitions
鷗
Compounds
Japanese
| 鴎 | |
| 鷗 |
Kanji
鷗
(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鴎)
Readings
Definitions
| For pronunciation and definitions of 鷗 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 鷗, is the kyūjitai of the above term.) |
Korean
Hanja
鷗 (eum 구 (gu))