漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
鳩: pigeon, dove
JLPT N113 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
鳥 carries the meaning · 九 is drawn in
13 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
キュウkyuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 鳩首きゅうしゅgoing into a huddle
- 鳩合きゅうごうrally; muster
はとhato · kun'yomi · on its own
- 鳩はとpigeon; dove
Also read ク, あつめる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)九 (sound) + 鳥 bird (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 鳩 (rev. 93443763), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bird + nine (九) = a clever character where 'nine' represents the cooing sound of a pigeon, which sounds like 'ku' in Japanese.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
九
Also built on nine (九)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side鳩 pigeon · 九 + 鳥
vs鳳 male mythical bird · 几 + 𩾏In ChineseSimplified 鸠 · traditional, as in Japanese · jiū
Japan keeps the traditional form 鳩; mainland China simplifies it to 鸠.
- Simplified
- 鸠 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 鳩 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiū most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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