鷖

See also: 鹥

鷖 U+9DD6, 鷖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DD6 ← 鷕 [U+9DD5] CJK Unified Ideographs 鷗 → [U+9DD7]

Translingual

Han character

鷖 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹日火 (SEHAF), four-corner 7732₇, composition ⿱殹鳥)

1. seagull

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1499, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47267
• Dae Jaweon: page 2029, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4656, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9DD6

Chinese

trad.		鷖
simp.		鹥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (医) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鷖	*qiː
翳	*qiː, *qiːs
嫛	*qiː
黳	*qiː
繄	*qiː, *qiːs
医	*qiːs
嫕	*qiːs
蘙	*qiːs
瞖	*qiːs
殹	*qiːs
贀	*ɢʷis
醫	*qɯ
毉	*qɯ
蠮	*qiːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹, ai¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): ĭ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji¹, ai¹
    • Yale: yī, āi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹, ai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹, ei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/, /ɐi̯⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ej

Rime
Character	鷖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	烏奚切
Baxter	'ej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔei/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔei/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛj/
Li Rong	/ʔei/
Wang Li	/iei/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jai1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鷖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yī
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔej ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁij/
English	seagull; fabulous bird
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	鷖
Reading #	1/1
No.	15045
Phonetic component	医
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷖
Old Chinese	/*qiː/

Definitions

鷖

1. seagull

   • 鳬好沒，鷖好浮。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     凫好没，鹥好浮。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 陸佃 Lu Dian,《埤雅》Piya, late 11^th century CE.

     Fú hǎo mò, yī hǎo fú. [Pinyin]

     The wild ducks like to dive; the seagulls like to float.

   • 駟玉虯以乘鷖兮，溘埃風余上徵。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     驷玉虬以乘鹥兮，溘埃风余上征。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Sì yùqiú yǐ chéng yī xī, kè āifēng yú shàngzhēng. [Pinyin]

     Riding a motley shade gull, hitched to a jade hornless dragon quadriga, I’m suddenly journeying upward on a dust-flown wind.

Usage notes

Wang Yi glosses 鷖 as 「鷖，鳳皇別名也。」 ("a nickname of the fenghuang")[1].

Compounds

• 鳧鷖／凫鹥

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B06169
• “鷖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

鷖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)
• Kun: かもめ (kamome)

Korean

Hanja

鷖 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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