雀

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 少 (“small”) + 隹 (“bird”) – a small bird, a sparrow.

Han character

雀 (radical 172 隹+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火人土 (FOG), four-corner 9021₄, composition ⿱少隹)

1. sparrow

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

雀 (Yale jeuk3)

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Japanese

Kanji

雀

1. sparrow

Readings

• On: じゃく (jaku), さく (saku)
• Kun: すずめ (suzume)

Compounds

• 雀蜂 (すずめばち, suzumebachi)

Noun

雀 (hiragana すずめ, katakana スズメ, romaji suzume)

1. a sparrow

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Korean

Hanja

雀 (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune-Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

雀 (pinyin què (que4), Wade-Giles ch'üeh⁴)

Compounds

• 雀巢
• 麻雀

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Vietnamese

Han character

雀 (tước)