雀

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 少 (“small”) + 隹 (“bird”) – a small bird, a sparrow.

Han character

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

1. sparrow

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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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): què, qiāo (que⁴, qiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄝˋ, ㄑㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: què
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'üeh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɥ̯œ⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'iao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiau
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zoek³
    • Yale: jeuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕœːk̚³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (雀, reconstructed)
Character (雀), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 藥 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 即略切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sɨɐk̚/	/t͡si̯ak̚/	/t͡siak̚/	/t͡siɐk̚/	/t͡sɨak̚/	/t͡sĭak̚/	/t͡siɑk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (雀, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
雀								què								‹ tsjak ›								/*[ts]ewk/								sparrow
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
雀					10745					雀					藥					2					爵					/*ʔsewɢ/

Definitions

1. sparrow
2. (Cantonese) bird

   雀竇 / 雀窦 [Cantonese]  ―  zoek³ dau³ [Jyutping]  ―  bird nest

See also

• (Mandarin) 鳥／鸟

Compounds

• 雀巢
• 麻雀

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Japanese

Kanji

雀

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. sparrow

Readings

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

Compounds

Kanji in this term

雀

すずめ Jinmeiyō

kun'yomi

• 雀蜂 (すずめばち) (suzumebachi)

Noun

雀 (hiragana すずめ, katakana スズメ, romaji suzume)

1. sparrow

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

雀 (tước)

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