鷸

See also: 鹬

鷸 U+9DF8, 鷸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DF8 ← 鷷 [U+9DF7] CJK Unified Ideographs 鷹 → [U+9DF9]

Translingual

Han character

鷸 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+12, 23 strokes, cangjie input 弓月竹日火 (NBHAF), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿰矞鳥)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1501, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47359
• Dae Jaweon: page 2031, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4663, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9DF8

Chinese

trad.		鷸
simp.		鹬
alternative forms		𨙧 𪈄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鷸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
瞲	*qʰʷilʔ, *qʰʷids, *qʰʷiːd
璚	*ɡʷeŋ
劀	*kʷriːd, *kʷreːd
鱊	*kʷriːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
譎	*kʷiːd
潏	*kʷiːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
鐍	*kʷiːd
憰	*kʷiːd
噊	*ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
驈	*ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
橘	*kʷid
繘	*kʷid, *ɢʷid
獝	*qʰʷid
燏	*ɢʷid
遹	*ɢʷid
鷸	*ɢʷid
矞	*ɢʷid
霱	*ɢʷid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷid) : phonetic 矞 (OC *ɢʷid) + semantic 鳥.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wat⁶ / leot⁶ / jyut⁶ / neot⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gih⁶
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸yuq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wat⁶ / leot⁶ / jyut⁶ / neot⁶
    • Yale: waht / leuht / yuht / neuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wat⁹ / loet⁹ / jyt⁹ / noet⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wed⁶ / lêd⁶ / yud⁶ / nêd⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐt̚²/, /lɵt̚²/, /jyːt̚²/, /nɵt̚²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸yuq
    • MiniDict: yuih^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhyq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦyɪʔ¹²/

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• Middle Chinese: ywit

Rime
Character	鷸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘律切
Baxter	ywit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/juet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwit̚/
Li Rong	/iuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/jĭuĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wat6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷid/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鷸
Reading #	1/1
No.	16020
Phonetic component	矞
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	聿
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷid/

Definitions

鷸

1. snipe; sandpiper; kingfisher

Compounds

• 蠣鷸／蛎鹬 (lìyù)
• 鷸冠／鹬冠 (yùguān)
• 鷸蚌相爭／鹬蚌相争 (yùbàngxiāngzhēng)
• 鷸蚌相爭，漁人得利／鹬蚌相争，渔人得利 (yùbàng xiāngzhēng, yúrén délì)
• 鷸鴕／鹬鸵 (yùtuó)

 

References

• “鷸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鹬”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 293.

Japanese

Kanji

鷸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sandpiper

Readings

• Go-on: いち (ichi)
• Kan-on: いつ (itsu)
• Kun: しぎ (shigi)

Noun

Kanji in this term
鷸
しぎ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

鷸(しぎ) or 鷸(シギ) • (shigi) 

1. Alternative spelling of 鴫 (“sandpiper”)

Derived terms

• 磯(いそ)鷸(しぎ) (isoshigi)

Korean

Hanja

鷸 • (heul) (hangeul 흘, revised heul, McCune–Reischauer hŭl, Yale hul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鷸 (duật)