鵜

See also: 鹈

鵜 U+9D5C, 鵜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D5C ← 鵛 [U+9D5B] CJK Unified Ideographs 鵝 → [U+9D5D]

Translingual

Han character

鵜 (radical 196, 鳥+7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金竹竹日火 (CHHAF), four-corner 8722₇, composition ⿰弟鳥)

1. pelican

References

• KangXi: page 1490, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46952
• Dae Jaweon: page 2021, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4637, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9D5C

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Chinese

trad.		鵜
simp.		鹈

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
梯	*tʰiːl
睇	*tʰiːl, *diːls
涕	*tʰiːlʔ, *tʰiːls
挮	*tʰiːlʔ
鬀	*tʰiːls, *diːls
剃	*tʰiːls
綈	*diːl
蕛	*diːl
稊	*diːl
苐	*diːl
鵜	*diːl
銻	*diːl
鮷	*diːl
罤	*diːl
弟	*diːlʔ, *diːls
娣	*diːlʔ, *diːls
悌	*diːlʔ, *diːls
第	*diːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *diːl): phonetic 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tí (ti²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tí
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyi
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tai⁴
    • Yale: tàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /dei/

Rime
Character	鵜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	杜奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dei/
Pan Wuyun	/dei/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛj/
Li Rong	/dei/
Wang Li	/diei/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tí

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*diːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鵜
Reading #	1/1
No.	2290
Phonetic component	弟
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嗁
Old Chinese	/*diːl/

Definitions

鵜

1. Only used in 鵜鶘／鹈鹕 (tíhú).

Compounds

• 鵜形目／鹈形目
• 鵜鴃／鹈𫛞

• 鵜鶘／鹈鹕 (tíhú)

• 鷿鵜／䴙鹈

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Japanese

Kanji

鵜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. cormorant

Readings

• Go-on: だい (dai)
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: う (u, 鵜)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鵜
う Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Possibly onomatopoeia of the bird's cry. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) う​ [úꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

鵜(う) • (u) 

1. a cormorant (seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae)

   Synonym: 島つ鳥 (shimatsutori, shimatsudori)

   Hypernym: ペリカン (perikan)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 鵜(う)飼(か)い (ukai), 鵜(う)飼(が)い (ugai)
• 鵜(う)匠(しょう) (ushō), 鵜(う)匠(じょう) (ujō)
• 鵜(ウ)松(ダイ)明(カン)樺(バ) (udaikanba)
• 鵜(ウ)松(ダイ)明(マツ) (u-daimatsu)
• 鵜(う)戸(ど) (Udo)
• 鵜(う)縄(なわ) (unawa)
• 鵜(う)の足(あし)貝(がい) (unoashigai)
• 鵜(う)の木(き) (Unoki)
• 鵜(う)の島(しま) (Unoshima)
• 鵜(う)の巣(す) (Unosu)
• 鵜(う)呑(の)み (unomi)
• 鵜(う)の目(め)硫(い)黄(おう) (unome iō)
• 鵜(う)の森(もり) (Unomori)
• 鵜(う)舟(ぶね) (ubune)
• 鵜(う)祭(まつり) (U Matsuri)
• 鵜(う)の首(くび)造(づく)り (u no kubizukuri)
• 荒(あら)鵜(う) (arau)
• 海(ウミ)鵜(ウ) (umiu)
• 川(カワ)鵜(ウ), 河(カワ)鵜(ウ) (kawau)
• 姫(ヒメ)鵜(ウ) (himeu)

Idioms

• 鵜(う)の目(め)鷹(たか)の目(め) (u no me taka no me)

Proverbs

• 鵜(う)の真(ま)似(ね)をする烏(からす) (u no mane o suru karasu)
• 烏(からす)が鵜(う)の真似(まね) (karasu ga u no mane)
• 烏(からす)を鵜(う)に使(つか)う (karasu o u ni tsukau)

Proper noun

鵜(う) • (U) 

1. a surname

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Korean

Hanja

鵜 • (je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune–Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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