雀

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

• 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

Historical forms of the character 雀
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

In the current form, the upper part looks like 少, but what looks like the bottom stroke of 少 is actually the upper left stroke of 隹, extended.

雀

1. sparrow
2. (Cantonese) bird

   雀竇 / 雀窦 [Cantonese]  ―  zoek³ dau³ [Jyutping]  ―  bird nest

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. sparrow

• Go-on: さく (saku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan’yō-on: じゃく (jaku); じゃん (jan)
• Kun: すずめ (suzume, 雀)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) すずめ [sùzúmé] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [sɨᵝzɨᵝme̞]

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

1. a Eurasian tree sparrow

• 黄 (こう)雀 (じゃく) (kōjaku)

Shortened from 麻雀

雀 (katakana ジャン, rōmaji jan)

1. mahjong[3] (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

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

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雀 (tước)

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