鵺

鵺 U+9D7A, 鵺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D7A ← 鵹 [U+9D79] CJK Unified Ideographs 鵻 → [U+9D7B]

Translingual

Han character

鵺 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 難難難卜月 (XXXYB) or 卜大竹日火 (YKHAF), composition ⿰夜鳥)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1493, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47030
• Dae Jaweon: page 2023, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4643, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9D7A

Chinese

trad.		鵺
simp.		𲍿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
夜	*laːɡs
鵺	*laːɡs
迹	*ʔsleːɡ
跡	*ʔsleːɡ
亦	*laːɡ
弈	*laːɡ
奕	*laːɡ
帟	*laːɡ
腋	*laːɡ
掖	*laːɡ
焲	*laːɡ
液	*laːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yè (ye⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yè
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yè
    • Wade–Giles: yeh⁴
    • Yale: yè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeh
    • Palladius: е (je)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: je⁶
    • Yale: yeh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: je⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yé⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: yaeH

Rime
Character	鵺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊謝切
Baxter	yaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiaH/
Pan Wuyun	/jiaH/
Shao Rongfen	/iaH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaH/
Li Rong	/iaH/
Wang Li	/jĭaH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯aH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	je6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*laːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鵺
Reading #	1/1
No.	14993
Phonetic component	亦
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	夜
Old Chinese	/*laːɡs/
Notes	見山海經

Definitions

鵺

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Japanese

鵺(nue)

Kanji

鵺

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: や (ya)
• Kan-on: や (ya)
• Kun: ぬえ (nue, 鵺)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鵺
ぬえ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
鵼

/nue₂/: [nuye] → [nue].

Noun

鵺(ぬえ) • (nue) 

1. Synonym of 虎鶇 (tora tsugumi, “White's Thrush, Zoothera aurea”)
   • 712, Kojiki

     [...] 阿遠夜麻邇 奴延波那伎 佐怒都登理 岐藝斯波登與牟 [...]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 7, page 21:

     鵼 唐韵云 鵼 音空 漢語抄云 沼江 新撰字鏡 鵺 鵼 並訓奴江 按奴延見古事記八千戈神歌 万葉集奴延鳥奴要子鳥即是 [...] 今俗呼鬼都具美 [...] 按關東俗呼虎都具美 恠鳥也

     Nue The Tangyun calls it 'Nue'- sound kū, The Extracts of Chinese Vocabulary call it nuye The Shinsen Jikyō 'nue' 'nue' common reading nuye; check nuye seen in Kojiki's Eight Thousand Spears divine poem, in Man'yōshū as nuye bird, assuming nuye bird is this [...] nowadays folk call it 'demon-thrush' [...] check Kantō folk calling it tiger-thrush, it is an uncanny bird

2. a mystical creature with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the tail of a snake, and the legs of a tiger; similar to a chimera
   • p. 1221, Heike Monogatari, volume 4:

     其時上下手々に火をともいて、これを御らんじみ給ふに、かしらは猿、むくろは狸、尾はくちなは、手足は虎の姿なり。なく聲鵼にぞにたりける。おそろしなどもをろか也。[...]去る應保のころほひ、二条院御在位の時、鵼といふ化鳥禁中にないて、しば々々宸襟をなやます事ありき。[...]ころはさ月廿日あまりの、まだよひの事なるに、鵼たゞ一聲おとづれて、二聲ともなかざりけり。[...]頼政はかりことに、まづおほかぶらをとてつがひ、鵼の聲しつる内裏のうへへぞいあげたる。鵼かぶらのをとにおどろいて、虚空にしばしひゝめいたり。二の矢に小鏑ととつがひ、ひふつとゐきて、鵼とかぶらとならべて前にぞおとしたる。[...]頼政にかづけ給ふとて、「昔の養由は雲の外の鴈をいき。今の頼政は雨のうちに鵼をゐたり」とぞ感ぜられける。

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References

• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
• 1957, Yutaka Tsuchihashi, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Kodai Kayōshū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
• Takagi, Ichinosuke with Masao Ozawa, Kaoru Atsumi, Haruhiko Kindaichi (after 1221) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 32: Heike Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1959, →ISBN