Wiktionary

鶯

See also: 鴬 and 莺
鶯 U+9DAF, 鶯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DAF
← 鶮
[U+9DAE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鶰 →
[U+9DB0]

Translingual edit

Traditional 鶯
Shinjitai
(extended) 		鴬
Simplified 莺

Han character edit

鶯 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 火火月竹火 (FFBHF), four-corner 99327, composition ⿱𤇾鳥)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1496, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47169
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2025, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4653, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9DAF

Chinese edit

trad. 鶯
simp. 莺
alternative forms 鸎／莺
𦾉／莺

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (熒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鶯 *qreːŋ
罃 *qreːŋ
嫈 *qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
褮 *qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
覮 *pqʰʷeːŋ
謍 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
䁝 *qʷraːŋʔ
嶸 *ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
嵤 *ɢʷreːŋ
榮 *ɢʷreŋ
瑩 *ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
蠑 *ɢʷreŋ
禜 *ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
醟 *ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
檾 *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
煢 *ɡʷeŋ
焭 *ɡʷeŋ
縈 *qʷeŋ
營 *ɢʷeŋ
鎣 *ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
塋 *ɢʷeŋ
濴 *ɢʷeŋ
熒 *ɡʷeːŋ
螢 *ɡʷeːŋ
滎 *ɡʷeːŋ
濙 *qʷeːŋʔ
瀅 *qʷeːŋs

Pronunciation edit

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 鶯
Mandarin Beijing /iŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /iŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iŋ²¹/
Jinan /iŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /iŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /iŋ²¹/
Xining /iə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /iŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /in⁵⁵/
Chengdu /in⁵⁵/
Guiyang /in⁵⁵/
Kunming /ĩ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /in³¹/
Hefei /in²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /iŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /in⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔin³³/
Wenzhou /j̠aŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /iʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /iɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /in³³/
Xiangtan /in³³/
Gan Nanchang /in⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /in⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /in²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ɐŋ⁵⁵/
Nanning /jeŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ɐŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /iŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ɛiŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /aiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /eŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /eŋ²³/
Rime
Character 鶯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 耕 (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 烏莖切
Baxter 'eang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔəɨjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ʔɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/æŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ang1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鶯
Reading # 1/1
No. 15354
Phonetic
component 		熒
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		甖
Old
Chinese 		/*qreːŋ/

Definitions edit

鶯

  1. oriole

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

FWOTD – 26 August 2019

Shinjitai
(extended)

鴬

Kyūjitai

鶯

Kanji edit

鶯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鴬)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Compounds

Etymology edit

 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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鶯 (uguisu): a Japanese bush warbler in its characteristic olive-green color.
Kanji in this term
鶯
うぐいす
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

⟨uɡupi1 su⟩ → /uɡupisu/ → /uɡufisu/ → /uɡuwisu/ → /uɡuisu/

From Old Japanese. Compound of うぐい (ugui, onomatopoeia, imitative of the bird's call) +‎ す (su, “bird”, ancient suffix appearing in certain bird names, possibly cognate with Korean 새 (sae, “bird”)).[1] Compare the す (su) in 烏 (karasu), 杜鵑 (hototogisu), モズ (mozu).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

鶯(うぐいす) or 鶯(ウグイス) • (uguisu) ←うぐひす (ugufisu) or ウグヒス (ugufisu)?

  1. Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 837:
      ,[4] text here
      波流能努尓(はるののに)奈久夜(なくや)汙隅比須(うぐひす)奈都気牟得(なつけむと)和何弊能曽能尓(わがへのそのに)汙米何波奈佐久(うめがはなさく)　笇(さん)師(し)志(し)氏(しの)大道(おほみち) [Man'yōgana]
      春(はる)の野(の)に鳴(な)くや鴬(うぐひす)なつけむと我(わ)が家(へ)の園(その)に梅(うめ)が花(はな)咲(さ)く　笇(さん)師(し)志(し)氏(しの)大道(おほみち) [Modern spelling]
      haru no no ni naku ya uguisu natsukemu to waga e no sono ni ume ga hana-saku
      The warbler singing in the unplowed springtime fields―that it be content to live close at hand the plum blooms in my arbor now. (Master of Computation Shiki[sic] no Ōmichi)[5]
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 20, poem 4495:
      ,[6] text here
      打(うち)奈婢久(なびく)波流等毛之流久(はるともしるく)宇具比須(うぐひす)波(は)宇恵木之樹間乎(うゑきのこまを)奈枳和多良奈牟(なきわたらなむ) [Man'yōgana]
      うち靡(なび)く春(はる)ともしるく鴬(うぐひす)は植(うゑ)木(き)の木間(こま)を鳴(な)き渡(わた)らなむ [Modern spelling]
      uchinabiku haru to mo shiruku uguisu wa ueki no koma o naki watarunan
      To know clearly that spring has come (minding of tender young herbs), that nightingale between the planted trees, let him come and sing repeatedly![7]
    • 905, Kokin Wakashū (book 1, poem 14)[8]
      うぐひすの谷(たに)よりいづる声(こゑ)なくははるくることを誰(たれ)かしらまし
      uguisu no tani yori izuru koe naku wa haru kuru koto o tare ka shiramashi
      Without the voice of the warbler that comes out of the valley, how would we know the arrival of spring?[9]
  2. short for 鶯色 (uguisu iro): an olive-green color, as the rear of a bush warbler
  3. short for 鶯声 (uguisu-goe): a description for a woman's beautiful voice
  4. a metal skewer used in 香道 (kōdō) to fasten a paper wrapper
  5. a bamboo skewer used in binding an obi or similar

Usage notes edit

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ウグイス.

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

Idioms edit

See also edit

Proper noun edit

鶯(うぐいす) • (Uguisu) ←うぐひす (ugufisu)?

  1. a surname

References edit

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  4. ^ Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.
  5. ^ Edwin A. Cranston (1998) The Gem-Glistening Cup, illustrated edition, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 546
  6. ^ Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2003, →ISBN.
  7. ^ Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1963) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated, Book XX, Leiden: Brill Archive (E.J. Brill), page 202
  8. ^ Kojima, Noriyuki with Arai Eizō (1989) [905] Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 5: Kokin Wakashū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  9. ^ Haruo Shirane (2013) Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts, illustrated, reprint edition, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 34

Further reading edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

鶯 (eumhun 꾀꼬리 앵 (kkoekkori aeng))

  1. Chinese oriole
  2. bush warbler

Compounds edit

Compounds

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

鶯: Hán Việt readings: oanh[1][2][3][4][5][6]
鶯: Nôm readings: oanh[1][2][3], anh[3]

  1. chữ Hán form of oanh (“oriole”).

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Trần (2004).
  4. ^ Trần (1999).
  5. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  6. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
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