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.].
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
