鳩
See also: 鸠
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Translingual
Han character
鳩 (radical 196, 鳥+2, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大弓竹日火 (KNHAF), four-corner 47027, composition ⿰九鳥)
Derived characters
- 𤄄
References
- 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
Chinese
| trad. | 鳩 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 鸠 | |
| variant forms | 䲥 𩾛 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 鳩 | |
|---|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 尻 | *kʰuː |
| 訄 | *kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu |
| 艽 | *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw |
| 虓 | *qʰruː |
| 鳩 | *ku |
| 勼 | *ku |
| 九 | *kuʔ |
| 究 | *kus |
| 仇 | *ɡu |
| 鼽 | *ɡu |
| 犰 | *ɡu |
| 叴 | *ɡu |
| 厹 | *ɡu |
| 頄 | *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw |
| 朹 | *ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 馗 | *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw |
| 扏 | *ɡu |
| 訅 | *ɡu |
| 釚 | *ɡu |
| 肍 | *ɡu |
| 軌 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 宄 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 氿 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 匭 | *kʷrɯwʔ |
| 泦 | *kuɡ |
| 旭 | *qʰʷoɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ku) : phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).
Pronunciation
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
鳩
Readings
Compounds
Etymology
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| Kanji in this term |
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| 鳩 |
| はと Jinmeiyō |
| kun’yomi |
Possibly onomatopoeia from the hatahata sound of a dove or pigeon's wings in flight.
Alternative forms
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ハト.
Idioms
Idioms
- 鳩が豆鉄砲を食ったよう (hato ga mameteppō o kutta yō): “like a pigeon that ate a peashooter” → dumbfounded, taken by surprise
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 鳩車 (hatoguruma): a pigeon cart: a kind of toy pigeon with wheels on it
- 鳩小屋 (hatogoya): a dovecote
- 鳩根性 (hato konjō): “pigeon-spirited” → appearing composed while harboring resentment
- 鳩座 (Hato-za): the Dove or Columba constellation
- 鳩酒 (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 (hatozome): “pigeon dyeing” → dyeing, or something dyed, in the colors of the turtledove or Japanese green pigeon
- 鳩派 (hatoha): (politics) the doves (proponents of peace; as opposed to the hawks, proponents of war)
- 鳩羽色 (hatobairo): “pigeon-wing color” → a dark blue-gray
- 鳩笛 (hatobue): a pigeon flute: a flute used to imitate the call of the dove
- 鳩吹 (hatofuki): a dove call, a lure to imitate the call of the dove
- 鳩吹く (hatofuku): to make a dove call, such as by blowing a kind of whistle formed by one's cupped hands
- 鳩麦 (hatomugi): “pigeon barley” → Job's tears, tear grass
- 鳩胸 (hatomune): pigeon-breasted (similar to the way a pigeon's chest is puffed out); (medical) pectus carinatum
Korean
Vietnamese
Han character
鳩 (cưu)
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