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U+96C0, 雀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96C0

[U+96BF]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+96C1]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 172, +3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火人土 (FOG), four-corner 90214, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1364, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41954
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1868, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4091, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+96C0

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (small) + (bird) – a small bird, a sparrow.

In the current form, the upper part looks like , but what looks like the bottom stroke of is actually the upper left stroke of , extended.

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • chhiok/chhiak/chiok - literary;
  • chiah/chehⁿ - vernacular (limited, e.g. 雀盲);
  • chioh, chhek - vernacular.
    • (Teochew)
      • Peng'im: ciag4 / ziah4 / ziaoh4 / ziouh4
      • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiak / tsiah / tsiauh / tsiouh
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰiak̚²/, /t͡siaʔ²/, /t͡siauʔ²/, /t͡siouʔ²/
Note:
  • ciag4 - literary;
  • ziah4 - vernacular;
  • ziaoh4/ziouh4 - dialectal (e.g. 雀盲) (ziouh4 - Chaozhou).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰyɛ⁵¹/
/t͡ɕʰiɑu²¹⁴/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰiau²¹³/
/t͡ɕʰyɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰiɑu²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰyə²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sʰyə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰyo²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰiau⁵³/
Xining /t͡ɕʰiɔ⁵³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰiɔ⁵³/
/t͡ɕʰye¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰyə¹³/
/t͡ɕʰiɔ⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰyɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰio²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰyo³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰio²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰio³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰoʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰyɐʔ⁵/
/t͡ɕʰiɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰiəʔ²/ 麻~
/t͡ɕʰiau⁵³/ ~兒
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰiɔ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰiɑʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰiɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰiɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡siun²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰio²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰio²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡siok̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡siok̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sœk̚³/
Nanning /t͡sʰœk̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sœk̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/
/t͡siaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰuɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰiɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡siauʔ²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /siɔk̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tsjak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡siɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡siɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sɨak̚/
Li
Rong
/t͡siak̚/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jue
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zoek3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
què
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsjak ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]ewk/
English 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 10745
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsewɢ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. sparrow, especially the Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus)
  2. small bird
  3. (literary) dark red; brownish red
  4. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka) bird (Classifier: c)
    [Cantonese]  ―  zoek3 dau3 [Jyutping]  ―  bird nest
  5. (Cantonese, Jinhua Wu, colloquial) penis (Classifier: c)
    [Cantonese]  ―  lou6 zoek3-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to expose one's penis
  6. a surname

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. sparrow

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
すずめ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(すずめ) or (スズメ) (suzume

  1. a Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus)

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(jak) (hangeul , revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: tước

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