禽

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – an animal (离, bottom) being captured by a mouth (亼, top); compare 离. In current form, graphically 人 + 离.

Han character

禽 (radical 114 禸+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人卜山月 (OYUB), four-corner 8042₇)

1. birds, fowl
2. used as a surname
3. capture

References

• KangXi: page 848, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24893
• Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 199, character 4
• Unihan data for U+79BD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

禽 (Yale kam4)

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Japanese

Kanji

禽 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: きん (kin)
• Kun: とりこ (toriko), とり (tori)

Compounds

• 家禽 (かきん, kakin, “domestic fowls, poultry”)

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Korean

Hanja

禽 (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune-Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

禽 (pinyin qín (qin2), Wade-Giles ch'in²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禽 (cầm)