鷺

See also: 鹭

鷺 U+9DFA, 鷺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DFA ← 鷹 [U+9DF9] CJK Unified Ideographs 鷻 → [U+9DFB]

Translingual

Han character

鷺 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+12, 23 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹日火 (RRHAF), four-corner 6732₇, composition ⿱路鳥)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1501, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47362
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4664, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9DFA

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Chinese

trad.		鷺
simp.		鹭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鷺
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
髂	*kʰraːɡs
路	*ɡ·raːɡs
輅	*ɡ·raːɡs
賂	*ɡ·raːɡs
虂	*ɡ·raːɡs
露	*ɡ·raːɡs
潞	*raːɡs
鷺	*raːɡs
璐	*raːɡs
簬	*raːɡs
簵	*ɡ·raːɡs
洛	*ɡ·raːɡ
駱	*ɡ·raːɡ
絡	*ɡ·raːɡ
酪	*ɡ·raːɡ
烙	*ɡ·raːɡ
雒	*ɡ·raːɡ
珞	*ɡ·raːɡ
硌	*ɡ·raːɡ
袼	*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿	*ɡ·raːɡ
鉻	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥	*ɡ·raːɡ
鵅	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落	*ɡ·raːɡ
各	*klaːɡ
胳	*klaːɡ
閣	*klaːɡ
格	*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱	*klaːɡ
恪	*kʰlaːɡ
愙	*kʰaːɡ
貉	*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢	*ɡlaːɡ
佫	*ɡlaːɡ
略	*ɡ·raɡ
茖	*kraːɡ
骼	*kraːɡ
觡	*kraːɡ
蛒	*kraːɡ
敋	*kraːɡ
客	*kʰraːɡ
喀	*kʰraːɡ
揢	*kʰraːɡ
額	*ŋɡraːɡ
峉	*ŋɡraːɡ
頟	*ŋɡraːɡ
詻	*ŋɡraːɡ
垎	*ɡraːɡ
楁	*ɡraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raːɡs) : phonetic 路 (OC *ɡ·raːɡs) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): lù (lu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): nu⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lù
    • Wade–Giles: lu⁴
    • Yale: lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
    • Palladius: лу (lu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: nu⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: lu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nu²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lou⁶
    • Yale: louh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō͘
    • Tâi-lô: lōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: luH

Rime
Character	鷺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	洛故切
Baxter	luH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luoH/
Pan Wuyun	/luoH/
Shao Rongfen	/loH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɔH/
Li Rong	/loH/
Wang Li	/luH/
Bernard Karlgren	/luoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lou6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鷺
Reading #	1/1
No.	3862
Phonetic component	各
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	路
Old Chinese	/*raːɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鷺

1. heron; egret

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

鷺

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: ろ (ro)
• On: りょ (ryo)
• Kun: さぎ (sagi, 鷺)
• Nanori: さぎ (sagi)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鷺
さぎ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Kojiki of 712.

Compare to Korean 새 (sae, “bird”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) さぎ [sàgí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sa̠ɡʲi]

Noun

鷺(さぎ) or 鷺(サギ) • (sagi) 

1. [from 712] heron, egret

   Synonyms: 青鷺 (aosagi, “heron, gray heron”), 白鷺 (shirasagi, “egret, white egret”)

Derived terms

• 白鷺(しらさぎ) (shirasagi): egret
• 黒鷺(くろさぎ) (kurosagi): Pacific reef heron
• 蒼鷺(あおさぎ) (aosagi): grey heron
• 五位鷺(ごいさぎ) (goisagi): black-crowned night heron

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Korean

Hanja

鷺 (eum 로 (ro), word-initial (South Korea) 노 (no))

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Vietnamese

Han character

鷺: Hán Nôm readings: lộ

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