鷹

鷹 U+9DF9, 鷹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DF9 ← 鷸 [U+9DF8] CJK Unified Ideographs 鷺 → [U+9DFA]

鷹 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+13, 24 strokes, cangjie input 戈土竹日火 (IGHAF), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸䧹鳥)

• 𪿅, 𬷺, 𪈾

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1501, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47377
• Dae Jaweon: page 2031, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4666, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9DF9

trad.		鷹
simp.		鹰
2nd round simp.		⿰应鸟
alternative forms		䧹

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯŋ) : phonetic 䧹 (OC *qɯŋ, “eagle; hawk”) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

This word is possibly related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la(ŋ/k) (“bird of prey”), which is likely a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *laŋ ~ *laaŋ ~ *laiŋ (“large raptor”) > Proto-Bahnaric *klaːŋ (“hawk”), Proto-Palaungic *klaːŋ (“kite”), Mon လနေၚ် (“kite”), Khmer ខ្លែង (khlaeng, “kite”); within Tibeto-Burman, compare Tibetan གླག (glag, “eagle; vulture”), Burmese လင်းတ (lang:ta., “vulture”), Jingpho lang (“bird of the falcon family”) (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

This word agrees better with Tibetan སྐྱིང་སེར (skying ser, “eagle; vulture”) if the Old Chinese is reconstructed as *s-ki̯əŋ (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2007); Benedict (1976) reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kiŋ for this, which Benedict (1990) suggests is the native Sino-Tibetan root.

鷹

1. a bird of prey of Accipitriformes (eagles, hawks, kites, vultures), Falconiformes (falcons) or Strigiformes (owls)

   禿鷹／秃鹰  ―  tūyīng  ―  vulture

   雀鷹／雀鹰  ―  quèyīng  ―  sparrowhawk

   貓頭鷹／猫头鹰  ―  māotóuyīng  ―  owl

• “鷹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. eagle
2. falcon
3. hawk

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: よう (yō)
• Kun: たか (taka, 鷹)、くち (kuchi, 鷹)

Kanji in this term
鷹
たか Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.^[1] Compare Ainu タカ (taka, “hawk”).

• (Tokyo) たか [tàká] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ka̠]

鷹(たか) or 鷹(タカ) • (taka) 

1. a hawk (predatory bird)

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as タカ.

• 鷹(たか)の爪(つめ) (takanotsume)

Kanji in this term
鷹
くち Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鷹 – see the following entry.

【くち】 [noun] 鷹: (obsolete) hawk

(This term, 鷹, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

鷹 (eumhun 매 응 (mae eung))

1. hawk; falcon (esp. the peregrine or gyrfalcon)

鷹: Hán Việt readings: ưng
鷹: Nôm readings: ưng