鸛鷒

Chinese

		crane; stork
trad. (鸛鷒)		鸛	鷒
simp. (鹳𱉏)		鹳	𱉏
alternative forms		鸛鷤／鹳𫛴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guàntuán

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˋ ㄊㄨㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guàntuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˋ ㄊㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guàntuán
    • Wade–Giles: kuan⁴-tʻuan²
    • Yale: gwàn-twán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guanntwan
    • Palladius: гуаньтуань (guanʹtuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵¹ tʰu̯än³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwanH dwan|tsywen

Rime
Character	鸛	鷒	鷒
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	定 (7)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I	III
Fanqie	古玩切	度官切	職緣切
Baxter	kwanH	dwan	tsywen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑnH/	/duɑn/	/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑnH/	/dʷɑn/	/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑnH/	/duɑn/	/t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwanH/	/dwan/	/cwian/
Li Rong	/kuɑnH/	/duɑn/	/t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang Li	/kuɑnH/	/duɑn/	/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑnH/	/dʱuɑn/	/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guàn	tuán	zhuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gun3	tyun4	zyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːns  doːn|tjon/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鸛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guàn
Middle Chinese	‹ kwanH ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷˁar-s/
English	heron
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	鸛	鷒	鷒
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
No.	4479	17672	17691
Phonetic component	雚	專	專
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	貫	團	專
Old Chinese	/*koːns/	/*doːn/	/*tjon/
Notes	同雚見詩經

Noun

鸛鷒

1. (Chinese mythology) a kind of bird that could launch arrows back at archers

See also

• 鶝鶔／𱊏𱊗 (fúróu)