鴉

鴉 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+4, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一竹竹日火 (MHHAF), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿰牙鳥)

• KangXi: page 1484, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46738
• Dae Jaweon: page 2016, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4618, character 14
• Unihan data for U+9D09

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qraː) : phonetic 牙 (OC *ŋraː) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ka-n (“crow”). Cognate with 烏 (OC *qaː, “crow; raven”). The Middle Chinese of 鴉 retains the earlier vowel.

Schuessler (2007) disputes Old Chinese reconstructions with medial *-r-, reasoning that 鴉's place among Division II syllables (often from Old Chinese syllables containing *-r-) results rather from archaism which preserves the original vowel's quality.

鴉

1. crow; raven

   • 民食芻豢，麋鹿食薦，蝍且甘帶，鴟鴉耆鼠，四者孰知正味？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     民食刍豢，麋鹿食荐，蝍且甘带，鸱鸦耆鼠，四者孰知正味？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Mín shí chúhuàn, mílù shí jiàn, jíqiě gān dài, chīyā qí shǔ, sì zhě shú zhī zhèngwèi? [Pinyin]

     Men eat animals that have been fed on grain and grass; elaphures feed on the thick-set grass; centipedes enjoy small snakes; owls and crows delight in mice; but does any one of the four know the right taste?

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

• Go-on: え (e)
• Kan-on: あ (a)
• Kun: からす (karasu, 鴉)

• 鴉片(あへん) (ahen, “opium”)
• 鴉鷺(あろ) (aro, “crow and heron; black and white”)
• 寒鴉(かんあ) (kan'a, “winter crow”)
• 暁鴉(ぎょうあ) (gyōa, “crow cawing in the morning”)
• 宿鴉(しゅくあ) (shukua, “roosting crow”)
• 乱鴉(らんあ) (ran'a, “wildly flying crows”)

鴉 (hiragana がらさー, romaji garasā, hiragana がるさー, romaji garusā)

鴉 (hiragana がらさー, romaji garasā, hiragana がるさー, romaji garusā)

1. Alternative form of 烏

鴉 • (a) (hangeul 아)

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鴉 (hiragana からすぃ, romaji karasi)

鴉 (hiragana からすぃ, romaji karasi)

1. Alternative form of 烏

鴉 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

鴉 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

1. Alternative form of 烏

鴉 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

鴉 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

1. Alternative form of 烏

鴉: Hán Việt readings: nha[1][2][3][4][5]
鴉: Nôm readings: a[6], ác[1]

1. chữ Hán form of nha (“crow, raven”).
2. Nôm form of ác (“crow, raven”).

鴉 (hiragana がらち, romaji garachi)

鴉 (hiragana がらち, romaji garachi)

1. Alternative form of 烏