鵲

鵲 (radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿日竹日火 (TAHAF), four-corner 4762₇, composition ⿰昔鳥)

• KangXi: page 1492, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47014
• Dae Jaweon: page 2022, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4638, character 22
• Unihan data for U+9D72

鵲

1. magpie

   Synonyms: 喜鵲／喜鹊 (xǐquè)

• “鵲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Eurasian magpie

• Go-on: さく (saku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)^{←しやく (syaku, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: じゃく (jaku)^{←じやく (zyaku, historical)}
• Kun: かささぎ (kasasagi, 鵲)

• 鵲豆 (ふじまめ) (fujimame, “hyacinth bean”)

Likely from Old Japanese.

Derivation unknown.

• May be derived from Proto-Altaic, as seen in Korean 까치 (kkachi, “magpie”) and Turkish saksağan (“magpie”), all derived from onomatopoeia. This is problematic because there is little evidence of differing elisions of k- and s- in the language family.
• Alternatively, a compound of カラ (kara, “caw”, onomatopoeia, seen in 烏 (karasu, “crow”)) + 鷦鷯 (sasagi, “wren”, obsolete).

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かささぎ [kàsáságí] (Heiban – [0])[1][2][3]
  • (Tokyo) かさ​さぎ [kàsáꜜsàgì] (Nakadaka – [2])[3]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠sa̠sa̠ɡʲi]

鵲 (hiragana かささぎ, katakana カササギ, rōmaji kasasagi)

1. a Eurasian magpie (Pica pica)
   • 1205, Shin Kokin Wakashū (book 5 poem 522), text here

     かささぎの雲 (くも)のかけはし秋 (あき)暮 (く)れて夜 (よ)半 (は)には霜 (しも)やさえわたるらむ

     kasasagi no kumo no kakehashi aki kurete yowa ni wa shimo ya sae-wataruran

     To the bridge of clouds over-spanned by magpie wings comes autumn's close: for at midnight the frost spreads a chill throughout the sky.[4]

   1205, Shin Kokin Wakashū (book 6 poem 620), text here (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 6)

   かささぎの渡 (わた)せる橋 (はし)におく霜 (しも)の白 (しろ)きを見 (み)れば夜 (よ)ぞふけにける

   kasasagi no wataseru hashi ni oku shimo no shiroki o mireba yo zo fuke ni keru

   When I see the whiteness of the frost that lies on the bridge the magpies spread, then do I know, indeed, that the night has deepened.[5]

2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) a kind of heron, now likely referred to as 蒼鷺 (aosagi, “grey heron”)

• 鵲 (かささぎ)の橋 (はし) (kasasagi no hashi, “Magpie-Bridge”, Tanabata element)
• 鵲 (カササギ)雁 (ガン) (kasasagigan, “magpie-goose”)

鵲 (hiragana かささぎ, rōmaji Kasasagi)

1. a surname​.

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

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