鳦

鳦 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+1, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹火弓 (HFN), four-corner 2731₀, composition ⿰鳥乙(GHTJ) or ⿰鳥𠃉(K))

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1481, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46635
• Dae Jaweon: page 2013, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4613, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9CE6

Historical forms of the character 鳦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qriːd, *qrid) : semantic 鳥 (“bird”) + phonetic 乙 (OC *qriɡ).

Related to 燕 (OC *qeːns, “swallow”) (Wang, 1982). See there for more.

鳦

1. swallow

   • 女脩，顓頊之裔女，吞鳦子而生大業。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     女脩，颛顼之裔女，吞𱉇子而生大业。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Sima Zhen, 《史記索隱》"Seeking Obscurities in Records of the Grand Historian"

     Nǚxiū, zhuānxū zhī yìnǚ, tūn yìzǐ ér shēng dàyè. [Pinyin]

     Lady Xiu was a woman descending from Zhuanxu; she swallowed a swallow's egg then bore Ye the Great.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• On (unclassified): いつ (itsu); いち (ichi); あつ (atsu); えち (echi)
• Kun: つばめ (tsubame)

鳦 • (eul) (hangeul 을, revised eul, McCune–Reischauer ŭl, Yale ul)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.