囀

See also 啭

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouse”) + phonetic 轉 (“to shift”)

Han character

囀 (radical 30 口+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口十十戈 (RJJI), four-corner 6504₃)

1. sing, chirp, warble, twitter

References

• KangXi: page 214, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4614
• Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 705, character 18
• Unihan data for U+56C0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

囀 (simplified 啭, Yale jyun2)

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Japanese

Kanji

囀

Readings

• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: さえずる (saezuru)

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Korean

Hanja

囀 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

囀 (simplified 啭, pinyin zhuàn (zhuan4), Wade-Giles chuan⁴)