杜鵑

See also: 杜鹃

Chinese

fabricate; restrict; to prevent cuckoo
trad. (杜鵑)
simp. (杜鹃)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (7) (28)
Final () (23) (86)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () I IV
Fanqie
Baxter duX kwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duoX/ /kwen/
Pan
Wuyun
/duoX/ /kʷen/
Shao
Rongfen
/doX/ /kuɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɔX/ /kwɛn/
Li
Rong
/doX/ /kuen/
Wang
Li
/duX/ /kiwen/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuoX/ /kiwen/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
juān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dou6 gyun1

Noun

杜鵑

  1. (~鳥) cuckoo (bird)
  2. (~花) azalea and rhododendron, especially Rhododendron simsii

Synonyms

  • (cuckoo):

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (杜鵑):
  • Japanese: ()(けん) (token)
  • Korean: 두견(杜鵑) (dugyeon)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
ほととぎす
Jinmeiyō Hyōgaiji
jukujikun
For pronunciation and definitions of 杜鵑 – see the following entry.
ほととぎすホトトギス
[noun] the lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus
Alternative spellings
子規, 時鳥, 杜宇, 田鵑, 蜀魂, 郭公, 不如帰
(This term, 杜鵑, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Jinmeiyō
けん
Hyōgaiji
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 杜鵑 (MC duX kwen).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) けん [tòkéń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [to̞kẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

()(けん) • (token) 

  1. the lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus
Derived terms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

杜鵑 • (dugyeon) (hangeul 두견)

  1. Hanja form? of 두견 (cuckoo, azalea).
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