鵪鶉

See also: 鹌鹑

Chinese

		non-variegated quail	variegated quail
trad. (鵪鶉)		鵪	鶉
simp. (鹌鹑)		鹌	鹑
alternative forms		鵪𪂹／鹌𪂹 Cantonese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ānchún

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ ㄔㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): am¹ ceon¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): am¹ cun¹
• Jin (Wiktionary): ghan¹ cung¹
• Northern Min (KCR): uíng-sě̤ng
• Eastern Min (BUC): ăng-*sùng / ngiăng-cŭng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): am-chhun / am-sûn / an-sûn / an-tun / ian-tun / ian-chhun / ian-chun / am-chhun / ian-thun / am-thun

  (Teochew, Peng'im): am¹ sung⁵ / ngiang¹ cung¹ / ngiang² cung¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹oe-zen
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): ngan¹ xyn²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ānchún → ānchun (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ ㄔㄨㄣˊ → ㄢ ˙ㄔㄨㄣ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: anchůn
    • Wade–Giles: an¹-chʻun⁵
    • Yale: ān-chwun
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an.chwen
    • Palladius: аньчунь (anʹčunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən³⁵/ → /ˀän⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən²/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: am¹ ceon¹
    • Yale: ām chēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: am¹ tsoen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: em¹ cên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐm⁵⁵ t͡sʰɵn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: am¹ cun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /am⁴⁴ t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: ghan¹ cung¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɣæ̃¹¹ t͡sʰũŋ¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: uíng-sě̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uiŋ⁵⁴ sœyŋ²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ăng-*sùng / ngiăng-cŭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aŋ⁵⁵ suŋ⁵³/, /ŋiaŋ⁵⁵ ^(t͡s-)ʒuŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: am-chhun
    • Tâi-lô: am-tshun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: amzhwn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /am⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: am-sûn
    • Tâi-lô: am-sûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: amsuun
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /am³³ sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /am⁴⁴⁻²² sun²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an-sûn
    • Tâi-lô: an-sûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ansuun
    • IPA (Singapore): /an⁴⁴⁻²² sun²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an-tun
    • Tâi-lô: an-tun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: andwn
    • IPA (Singapore): /an⁴⁴⁻²² tun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ian-tun
    • Tâi-lô: ian-tun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iendwn
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Singapore): /iɛn⁴⁴⁻²² tun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ian-chhun
    • Tâi-lô: ian-tshun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ienzhwn
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ian-chun
    • Tâi-lô: ian-tsun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ienzwn
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: am-chhun
    • Tâi-lô: am-tshun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: amzhwn
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /am⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ian-thun
    • Tâi-lô: ian-thun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ientwn
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: am-thun
    • Tâi-lô: am-thun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: amtwn
    • IPA (Penang): /am³³⁻²¹ tʰun³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: am¹ sung⁵ / ngiang¹ cung¹ / ngiang² cung¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: am sûng / ngiang tshung / ngiáng tshung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /am³³⁻²³ suŋ⁵⁵/, /ŋiaŋ³³⁻²³ t͡sʰuŋ³³/, /ŋiaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sʰuŋ³³/

Note:

• ngiang1 cung1 - Shantou;
• ngiang2 cung1 - Chenghai.

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹oe-zen
    • MiniDict: oe^平 zen
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹oe-zen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ø⁵⁵ zən²¹/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: ngan¹ xyn²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋan³³ ɕyn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'om dzywin

Rime
Character	鵪	鶉
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	烏含切	常倫切
Baxter	'om	dzywin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʌm/	/d͡ʑiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəm/	/d͡ʑʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɒm/	/d͡ʑjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəm/	/d͡ʑwin/
Li Rong	/ʔᴀm/	/ʑiuĕn/
Wang Li	/ɒm/	/ʑĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔăm/	/ʑi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ān	chún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	am1	seon4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːm  doːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鶉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chún
Middle Chinese	‹ dzywin ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ur/
English	quail
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	鵪	鶉
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	14329	2596
Phonetic component	奄	敦
Rime group	談	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	諳	團
Old Chinese	/*qoːm/	/*doːn/
Notes	䳺晚起字	鷻字注或體見詩

Noun

鵪鶉

1. quail

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鵪鶉 (“quail”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鵪鶉
Mandarin	Beijing	鵪鶉
	Taiwan	鵪鶉
	Harbin	鵪鶉
	Yantai (Muping)	鵪雀兒
	Jinan	鵪鶉
	Luoyang	鵪鶉
	Wanrong	鵪蟲兒
	Xi'an	鵪鶉
	Yinchuan	鵪鶉
	Xining	鵪鶉
	Ürümqi	鵪鶉
	Wuhan	鵪鶉
	Chengdu	鵪鶉兒
	Guiyang	鵪鶉
	Liuzhou	鵪鶉, 鵪鶉鳥
	Xuzhou	鵪鶉
	Yangzhou	鵪鶉
	Nanjing	鵪鶉
	Singapore	鵪鶉
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鵪鶉
	Hong Kong	鵪鶉
	Dongguan	鵪鶉
Gan	Lichuan	鵪鶉
Hakka	Meixian	鵪鶉, 鵪鶉仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鵪鶉仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	鵪鶉仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	鵪鶉仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	鵪鶉
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	鵪鶉仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鵪鶉
Huizhou	Jixi	鵪鶉
Jin	Taiyuan	鵪鶉
	Xinzhou	鵪鶉
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鵪鶉
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鵪鶉
Southern Min	Xiamen	鵪鶉
	Quanzhou	鵪鶉
	Zhangzhou	鵪鶉
	Taipei	鵪鶉
	Kaohsiung	鵪鶉
	Penang (Hokkien)	鵪鶉
	Singapore (Hokkien)	鵪鶉
	Shantou	鵪鶉, 鸕鶉
	Shantou (Chenghai)	鵪鶉
	Nan'ao (Houzhai)	鵪鶉
	Nan'ao (Yun'ao)	鵪鶉
	Singapore (Teochew)	鵪鶉, 鸕鶉
	Haikou	鵪鶉鳥
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	鵪鶉
Wu	Shanghai	鵪鶉
	Suzhou	鵪鶉
	Danyang	鵪鶉
	Hangzhou	鵪鶉
	Ningbo	鵪鶉
	Wenzhou	鵪鶉
	Jinhua	鵪鶉
Xiang	Changsha	鵪鶉
	Loudi	鶉子

Derived terms

• 鵪鶉卵／鹌鹑卵
• 鵪鶉蛋／鹌鹑蛋 (ānchúndàn)

 

Adjective

鵪鶉

1. (Cantonese) cowardly; timid