Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 鳩

Modern (Beijing) reading: jiū

Preclassic Old Chinese: kru

Classic Old Chinese: kru

Western Han Chinese: krǝw

Eastern Han Chinese: krǝw

Early Postclassic Chinese: kiw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kǝw

Late Postclassic Chinese: kǝw

Middle Chinese: kǝw

English meaning : name of a bird

Russian meaning[s]: 1) голубь, горлица; 2) собираться; собирать, набирать (людей); 3) спокойствие; мирный; 4) скромный; убогий; унич. мой

Shuowen gloss: 鶻鵃.以鳥九聲.

Comments: Used also in compounds: 睢鳩 *ćha-kru 'osprey', 鳲鳩 *ƛij-kru 'cuckoo'. Although there are some doubts as to the original meaning of the word, it is glossed as 'dove' as early as in Shuowen, and means 'dove, pigeon' in all modern dialects (this meaning, as well as the reconstruction of medial *-r-, is supported by external evidence). Viet. cu is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is cu'u. [In Zuo Zhuan said to be used as a loan for 糾 or 逑 q.v.].

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 196

Four-angle index: 4551

Go-on: ku

Kan-on: kiu

Vietnamese reading: cu

Jianchuan Bai: -kɨ4

Dali Bai: -kɨ4

Bijiang Bai: -kɨ4

Shijing occurrences: 1.1_, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 58.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *grŭ

Meaning: pigeon, dove

Chinese: 鳩 *k(r)u pigeon, dove.

Burmese: khrǝwh, khjǝwh dove.

Kachin: khru¹-du², kǝkhru¹, (H) khru a bird of the genus columba.

Lushai: ṭhu-mi pigeon, ṭhu-ro dove.

Comments: Garo kru; Angami mekru; Trung xrǝ² pigeon; Chepang ku-wāʔ id., Kham kwī-tam id. Ben. 38; Mat. 180.