杜鵑

See also: 杜鹃

Chinese

fabricate; restrict; to prevent cuckoo
trad. (杜鵑) 杜 鵑
simp. (杜鹃) 杜 鹃

Pronunciation

Noun

杜鵑

  1. cuckoo
  2. azalea

Synonyms

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
杜 鵑
Jinmeiyō Hyōgaiji
Irregular

⟨poto2to2ɡi1su⟩ → /pototoɡisu/ → /fototoɡisu/ → /hototoɡisu/

From Old Japanese.

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 杜鵑 above.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • (Tokyo) ほとと​ぎす [hòtótóꜜgìsù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
    • IPA(key): [ho̞to̞to̞ɡʲisɨᵝ]

Noun

杜鵑 (hiragana ほととぎす, katakana ホトトギス, rōmaji hototogisu)

  1. lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus
    • 1188, Senzai Wakashū (book 3, poem 161; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 81)
      ほととぎす鳴 (な)きつる方 (かた)をながむればただありあけの月 (つき)ぞ残 (のこ)れる
      hototogisu nakitsuru kata o nagamureba tada ariake no tsuki zo nokoreru
      When I gaze in the direction of the crying cuckoo, only the moon lingers in the dawn.[2]
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
杜 鵑
と
Jinmeiyō		 けん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 杜鵑 (MC duoX kwen).

Pronunciation

Noun

杜鵑 (hiragana とけん, rōmaji token)

  1. lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ Haruo Shirane (1998) Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō, illustrated edition, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 208

Korean

Hanja in this term
杜鵑

Noun

杜鵑 • (dugyeon) (hangeul 두견)

  1. Hanja form? of 두견 (“cuckoo, azalea”).
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