鳲鳩

Chinese edit

			turtle-dove; Turtur orientalis
trad. (鳲鳩)		鳲	鳩
simp. (鸤鸠)		鸤	鸠
alternative forms		尸鳩

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shījiū

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄐㄧㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ gau¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shījiū
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄐㄧㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shihjiou
  - Wade–Giles: shih¹-chiu¹
  - Yale: shr̄-jyōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyjiou
  - Palladius: шицзю (šiczju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: si¹ gau¹
  - Yale: sī gāu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ gau¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ geo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ kɐu̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: syij kjuw

Rime
Character	鳲	鳩
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	式之切	居求切
Baxter	syij	kjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪ/	/kɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕi/	/kiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjɪ/	/kiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕi/	/kuw/
Li Rong	/ɕi/	/kiu/
Wang Li	/ɕi/	/kĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi/	/ki̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shī	jiū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si¹	gau¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*hli ku/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鳩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiū
Middle Chinese	‹ kjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[k](r)u/
English	(a kind of bird)
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	鳲	鳩
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11397	6939
Phonetic component	尸	九
Rime group	脂	幽
Rime subdivision	2	1
Corresponding MC rime		鳩
Old Chinese	/*hli/	/*ku/

Noun edit

鳲鳩

common cuckoo
- 鳲鳩在桑，其子七兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  鸤鸠在桑，其子七兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Shījiū zài sāng, qí zǐ qī xī. [Pinyin]
  The cuckoo is in the mulberry tree,
  And her young ones are seven.

Synonyms edit

可穀／可谷 (dialectal)
姑姑蟲／姑姑虫 (gu¹ gu^1-3 cung¹) (Jin)
子規／子规 (zǐguī)
子規鳥／子规鸟 (zǐguīniǎo)
布穀／布谷 (bùgǔ)
布穀鳥／布谷鸟 (bùgǔniǎo)
杜宇 (dùyǔ) (literary)
杜鵑／杜鹃 (dùjuān)
杜鵑鳥／杜鹃鸟 (dùjuānniǎo)
種穀蟲兒／种谷虫儿 (Jin)
穀穀鳥／谷谷鸟 (dialectal)
豆仔鳥／豆仔鸟 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
陽雀子／阳雀子 (ian² cio⁶ zr) (Xiang)

Derived terms edit

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