鳩

See also: 鸠

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

鳩 (radical 196 鳥+2, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大弓竹日火 (KNHAF), four-corner 4702₇, composition ⿰九鳥)

1. pigeon
2. collect, assemble

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 1481, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46648
• Dae Jaweon: page 2013, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4613, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9CE9

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ChineseEdit

trad.		鳩
simp.		鸠

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiū, qiāng (jiu¹, qiang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡ, ㄑㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kau¹, gau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ
    • Wade-Giles: chiu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiou
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'iang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiang
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kau¹, gau¹
    • Yale: kāu, gāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kau¹, gau¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɐu̯⁵⁵/, /kɐu̯⁵⁵/
    • Note: kau1 - common for non-vulgar senses; gau1 - common for vulgar senses.

NounEdit

鳩

1. a type of bird
2. (vulgar, Cantonese) penis (a substitution for the rarer word 𨳊)

InterfixEdit

鳩

1. (vulgar) fucking

   乜鳩事呀你？ / 乜鸠事呀你？ [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  Mat¹ gau¹ si⁶ aa³ nei⁵? [Jyutping]  ―  What the fuck is wrong with you?

Related termsEdit

• 斑鳩／斑鸠 (bānjiū, “turtledove”)
• (Cantonese) 戇鳩／戆鸠 (“dumbass”)
• (Cantonese five profanities) 屌 (diǎo), 鳩／鸠, 撚 (niǎn), 柒 (qī), 閪

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

鳩

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. pigeon, dove
2. (in compounds) to gather together (from the way that pigeons flock together)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: きゅう (kyū), (historical) きう (kiu)
• Kun: はと (hato)
• Nanori: やす (yasu)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

鳩居 (きゅうきょ) ‎(kyūkyo): a pigeon in a magpie's nest; living in a rented house or apartment 鳩合 (きゅうごう) ‎(kyūgō): flocking together 鳩舎 (きゅうしゃ) ‎(kyūsha): a dovecote 鳩車 (きゅうしゃ) ‎(kyūsha): a pigeon cart: a kind of toy pigeon with wheels on it 鳩首 (きゅうしゅ) ‎(kyūshu): putting heads together, consulting in a group

EtymologyEdit

Wikipedia ^ja Wikipedia

鳩 (hato): a pigeon, a dove.

Kanji in this term
鳩
はと Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Possibly onomatopoeia from the hatahata sound of a dove or pigeon's wings in flight.

PronunciationEdit

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) は​と [háꜜtò] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠to̞]

Alternative formsEdit

• 鴿

NounEdit

鳩 ‎(hiragana はと, katakana ハト, romaji hato)

1. a pigeon, a dove: a bird of genus Columba

Usage notesEdit

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as ハト.

IdiomsEdit

Idioms

鳩 (はと)が豆鉄砲 (まめてっぽう)を食 (く)ったよう ‎(hato ga mameteppō o kutta yō): “like a pigeon that ate a peashooter” → dumbfounded, taken by surprise

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

鳩車 (はとぐるま) ‎(hatoguruma): a pigeon cart: a kind of toy pigeon with wheels on it 鳩小屋 (はとごや) ‎(hatogoya): a dovecote 鳩根性 (はとこんじょう) ‎(hato konjō): “pigeon-spirited” → appearing composed while harboring resentment 鳩座 (はとざ) ‎(Hato-za): the Dove or Columba constellation 鳩酒 (はとざけ) ‎(hatozake): an old kind of medicine, wherein a pigeon would be tenderized and the bones broken, then the whole carcass would be covered in sake and miso and stewed, purportedly used to treat back pain and poor circulation in the extremities 鳩染 (はとぞめ) ‎(hatozome): “pigeon dyeing” → dyeing, or something dyed, in the colors of the turtledove or Japanese green pigeon 鳩派 (はとは) ‎(hatoha): (politics) the doves (proponents of peace; as opposed to the hawks, proponents of war) 鳩羽色 (はとばいろ) ‎(hatobairo): “pigeon-wing color” → a dark blue-gray 鳩笛 (はとぶえ) ‎(hatobue): a pigeon flute: a flute used to imitate the call of the dove 鳩吹 (はとふき) ‎(hatofuki): a dove call, a lure to imitate the call of the dove 鳩吹 (はとふ)く ‎(hatofuku): to make a dove call, such as by blowing a kind of whistle formed by one's cupped hands 鳩麦 (はとむぎ) ‎(hatomugi): “pigeon barley” → Job's tears, tear grass 鳩胸 (はとむね) ‎(hatomune): pigeon-breasted (similar to the way a pigeon's chest is puffed out); (medical) pectus carinatum

ReferencesEdit

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

鳩 • ‎(gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

鳩 (cưu)

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