小鳥
See also: 小鸟
Chinese
small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young |
bird | ||
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trad. (小鳥) | 小 | 鳥 | |
simp. (小鸟) | 小 | 鸟 |
Pronunciation
Synonyms
- (small bird):
Dialectal synonyms of 小鳥 (“little bird”) [map]
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 小鳥 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 鳥兒, 雀兒 |
Taiwan | 小鳥 | |
Harbin | 鳥兒, 雀兒 | |
Yantai (Muping) | 雀兒 | |
Lanzhou | 鳥兒 | |
Xining | 尕雀娃兒 | |
Ürümqi | 雀娃子 | |
Chengdu | 雀雀兒, 雀雀 | |
Guiyang | 雀雀 | |
Yangzhou | 雀子 | |
Nanjing | 雀子 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 雀仔 |
Hong Kong | 雀仔 | |
Dongguan | 雀仔, 鷝仔 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 雀子 |
Lichuan | 鳥兒崽兒, 鳥兒崽崽兒 | |
Pingxiang | 鳥仔 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 細鳥仔 |
Jin | Xinzhou | 鳥兒 |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 鳥囝 |
Southern Min | Leizhou | 鳥囝 |
Haikou | 鳥囝 | |
Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 麻雀 |
Wu | Hangzhou | 雀兒 |
Wenzhou | 鳥兒 |
- (birdie): 博蒂
- (penis):
Dialectal synonyms of 陰莖 (“penis; male genitalia”) [map]
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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小 | 鳥 |
こ Grade: 1 |
とり Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology
Compound of 小 (ko, “small, little”) + 鳥 (tori, “bird”).[1][2][3]
First attested in the Utsubo Monogatari of the late 900s.[1]
References
- “小鳥”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- “小鳥”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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