雀

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Alternative spellings 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 3.2.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 小 (“‘small’”) + 隹 (“‘bird’”)

[edit] Han character

雀 (radical 172 隹+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火人土 (FOG), four-corner 9021₄, composition ⿱少隹)

1. sparrow

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1364, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41954
• Dae Jaweon: page 1868, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4091, character 7
• Unihan data for U+96C0

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

雀 (Yale jeuk3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

雀 (hiragana すずめ, romaji suzume)

1. a sparrow

[edit] Alternative spellings

• スズメ

[edit] Kanji

雀

1. sparrow

[edit] Readings

• On: じゃく (jaku), さく (saku)
• Kun: すずめ (suzume)

[edit] Compounds

• 雀蜂 (すずめばち, suzumebachi)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

雀 (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune-Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

雀 (pinyin què (que4), Wade-Giles ch'üeh⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 雀巢
• 麻雀

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

雀 (tước)