鵝

鵝 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈竹日火 (HIHAF), four-corner 2752₇, composition ⿰我鳥)

• 𡤝

• KangXi: page 1490, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46954
• Dae Jaweon: page 2021, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4635, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9D5D

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaːl) : phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ) + semantic 鳥.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-n (“goose”), cognate with Tibetan ངང་པ (ngang pa), Burmese ငန်း (ngan:).

雁 is either a derivative with redundant nominalizer *-n; or both 鵝 (OC *ŋaːl) and 雁 (OC *ŋraːns) reflect an earlier liquid final *-l or *-r (Schuessler, 2007).

鵝

1. domestic goose (as opposed to a wild goose – 雁 (yàn)) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn)

• → Guiqiong: wo

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04732
• “鵝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

• Hill, Nathan W. (2014), “Cognates of Old Chinese *-n, *-r, and *-j in Tibetan and Burmese”, in Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, issue 43, pages 91–109

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 鵞: goose

• Go-on: が (ga)
• Kan-on: が (ga)

鵝 • (a) (hangeul 아)

1. (거위 아, geowi-): domesticated goose that would not fly at all, in contrast with the wild goose (雁 (기러기 안, gireogi-an)) whose skein flies in wedge or cuneiform.
2. (기러기 아, gireogi-): wild goose
   • 그려기 올히는 기리 헤요미 맛당하니 : 鵝鴨宜長數 <杜詩諺解, 1481, 7:9> [1]

• 鴻 (큰 기러기 홍, keun-gireogi-hong) big greylag goose
• 雁 (기러기 안, gireogi-an) wild goose, greylag goose
• 家雁 (가안, ga-an) literally, domestic or house goose

• 天鵝 (천아, cheon-a) swan

• 鵠 (고니 곡, goni-gok) swan

鵝: Hán Nôm readings: nga, ngỗng, ngổng

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