# 鵺

| 鵺 | U+9D7A, &#40314; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D7A |
| ← 鵹 [U+9D79] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鵻 → [U+9D7B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鵺 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 難難難卜月 (XXXYB) or 卜大竹日火 (YKHAF), composition ⿰夜鳥)

### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1493, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47030
* Dae Jaweon: page 2023, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4643, character 2
* Unihan data for U+9D7A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 夜 | *laːɡs |
| 鵺 | *laːɡs |
| 迹 | *ʔsleːɡ |
| 跡 | *ʔsleːɡ |
| 亦 | *laːɡ |
| 弈 | *laːɡ |
| 奕 | *laːɡ |
| 帟 | *laːɡ |
| 腋 | *laːɡ |
| 掖 | *laːɡ |
| 焲 | *laːɡ |
| 液 | *laːɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yè (ye$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): je$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yè
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yè
*** Wade–Giles: yeh$^4$
*** Yale: yè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeh
*** Palladius: е (je)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: je$^6$
*** Yale: yeh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: je$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yé$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛː²²/
* Middle Chinese: yaeH
Rime :
| Character | 鵺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 麻 (100) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 羊謝切 |
| Baxter | yaeH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jia$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jia$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ia$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jia$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ia$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭa$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /i̯a$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yè |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | je$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*laːɡs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 鵺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14993 |
| Phonetic component | 亦 |
| Rime group | 暮 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 夜 |
| Old Chinese | /*laːɡs/ |
| Notes | 見山海經 |

### Definitions

鵺
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## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: や (ya)
* Kan-on: や (ya)
* Kun: ぬえ (nue, 鵺)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 鵺
* ぬえ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 鵼
/nue$_2$/ → [nuye] → [nue].

### Noun

鵺(ぬえ) • (nue)
* Synonym of 虎鶇 (tora tsugumi, “white's thrush, Zoothera aurea”)
** 712, Kojiki
    [...] 阿遠夜麻邇 奴延波那伎 佐怒都登理 岐藝斯波登與牟 [...](please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 7, page 21:鵼 唐韵云 鵼 音空 漢語抄云 沼江 新撰字鏡 鵺 鵼 並訓奴江 按奴延見古事記八千戈神歌 万葉集奴延鳥奴要子鳥即是 [...] 今俗呼鬼都具美 [...] 按關東俗呼虎都具美 恠鳥也Nue The Tangyun calls it 'Nue'- sound kū, The Extracts of Chinese Vocabulary call it nuye The Shinsen Jikyō 'nue' 'nue' common reading nuye; check nuye seen in Kojiki's Eight Thousand Spears divine poem, in Man'yōshū as nuye bird, assuming nuye bird is this [...] nowadays folk call it 'demon-thrush' [...] check Kantō folk calling it tiger-thrush, it is an uncanny bird
* a mystical creature with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the tail of a snake, and the legs of a tiger, similar to a chimera
** p. 1221, Heike Monogatari, volume 4:其時上下手々に火をともいて、これを御らんじみ給ふに、かしらは猿、むくろは狸、尾はくちなは、手足は虎の姿なり。なく聲鵼にぞにたりける。おそろしなどもをろか也。[...]去る應保のころほひ、二条院御在位の時、鵼といふ化鳥禁中にないて、しば々々宸襟をなやます事ありき。[...]ころはさ月廿日あまりの、まだよひの事なるに、鵼たゞ一聲おとづれて、二聲ともなかざりけり。[...]頼政はかりことに、まづおほかぶらをとてつがひ、鵼の聲しつる内裏のうへへぞいあげたる。鵼かぶらのをとにおどろいて、虚空にしばしひゝめいたり。二の矢に小鏑ととつがひ、ひふつとゐきて、鵼とかぶらとならべて前にぞおとしたる。[...]頼政にかづけ給ふとて、「昔の養由は雲の外の鴈をいき。今の頼政は雨のうちに鵼をゐたり」とぞ感ぜられける。(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### References

* Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
* 1957, Yutaka Tsuchihashi, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Kodai Kayōshū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
* Takagi, Ichinosuke with Masao Ozawa, Kaoru Atsumi, Haruhiko Kindaichi (after 1221) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 32: Heike Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1959, →ISBN