鵲

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

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

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鵲

1. magpie

   Synonym: 喜鵲 / 喜鹊 (xǐquè)

   • 鶉之奔奔，鵲之彊彊。人之無良，我以為兄。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鹑之奔奔，鹊之彊彊。人之无良，我以为兄。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Chún zhī bēnbēn, què zhī jiāngjiāng. Rén zhī wú liáng, wǒ yǐ wéi xiōng. [Pinyin]

     The quails run [in pairs]. The magpies fly [in pairs]. That man is not nice. I call him brother.

• ⇒ Zhuang: roeggacak

• “鵲”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: さく (saku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan’yō-on: じゃく (jaku)
• Kun: かささぎ (kasasagi, 鵲)

• 鵲(ふじ)豆(まめ) (fujimame, “hyacinth bean”)

From Old Japanese, first appears in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.^[1]

Derivation unknown, theories include:

• The initial kasa- may be cognate with or a borrowing from an earlier form of Korean 까치 (kkachi, “magpie”).
• The final -sagi may be a reference to the white chest, alluding to the similar plumage of certain kinds of 鷺 (sagi, “heron, egret”).
• Alternatively, the final -sagi may derive from onomatopoeia, imitative of the bird's call.
• May be a corruption of 烏 (karasu, “crow”) + 鷺 (sagi, “heron, egret”):

  /karasu saɡi/ → */kasːaɡi/ → /kasasaɡi/

• May be a corruption of カラ (kara, onomatopoeia for cawing, seen in 烏 (karasu), “crow”) + 鷦鷯 (sasagi, “wren”, obsolete):

  /kara sasaɡi/ → /kasasaɡi/

• May be a corruption of カチカチ (kachikachi, onomatopoeia imitative of the bird's call) + 鷺 (sagi, “heron, egret”):

  /kat͡ɕikat͡ɕi saɡi/ → */kat̚t͡sasaɡi/ → /kasasaɡi/

• (Tokyo) かささぎ [kàsáságí] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3][4]
• (Tokyo) かささぎ [kàsáꜜsàgì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[4]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠sa̠sa̠ɡʲi]

鵲(かささぎ) or 鵲(カササギ) • (kasasagi) 

1. the Eurasian magpie, Pica pica

   Synonyms: (literally “Goryeo (ancient Korea) crow”) 高麗烏 (Kōrai-garasu), (literally “Joseon (medieval Korea) crow”) 朝鮮烏 (Chōsen-garasu)

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:鵲.

• 鵲(かささぎ)の鏡(かがみ) (kasasagi no kagami)
• 鵲(かささぎ)の橋(はし) (kasasagi no hashi)
• 鵲(かささぎ)雁(がん) (kasasagi gan)

鵲(かささぎ) • (Kasasagi) 

1. (historical) an 鴻 (Ōtori)-class torpedo boat of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
2. a surname

From Middle Chinese 鵲 (MC tshjak).

鵲(じゃく) • (jaku) 

1. Eurasian magpie

• 鵲(じゃっ)橋(きょう) (jakkyō)
• 烏(う)鵲(じゃく) (ujaku)
• 山(さん)鵲(じゃく) (sanjaku)

• Entry in Nihon Jiten (in Japanese)

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

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• 산작 (山鵲, sanjak)
• 오작 (烏鵲, ojak)
• 작교 (鵲橋, jakgyo)
• 작보 (鵲報, jakbo)
• 작성 (鵲聲, jakseong)

鵲: Hán Nôm readings: thước

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