鵝

鵝 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈竹日火 (HIHAF), four-corner 2752₇, composition ⿰我鳥)

• 𡤝

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1490, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46954
• Dae Jaweon: page 2021, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4635, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9D5D

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːl): phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ) + semantic 鳥.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-n (“goose”); cognate with Tibetan ངང་པ (ngang pa), Burmese ငန်း (ngan:). However, the final consonants of the proposed cognates are possibly irreconcilable; they could instead be independently coined through onomatopoeia (Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019).

Related to 雁 (OC *ŋraːns, “wild goose”); see there for more.

鵝

1. domestic goose (as opposed to a wild goose – 雁 (yàn)) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, derogatory) male prostitute who engages in sex with men
   • 2016 October 7, 江寶龍, “同志按摩院涉賣淫 校草「鵝王」被捕”, in 蘋果日報‎^[1]:

     他對自己樣貌非常自負，曾參加校花校草選舉，在facebook寫明自己戀愛取向為「女性」，但有人早已質疑其性取向，早前在網上討論區踢爆他做鵝：「serve（服侍）男人㗎。」 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     他对自己样貌非常自负，曾参加校花校草选举，在facebook写明自己恋爱取向为「女性」，但有人早已质疑其性取向，早前在网上讨论区踢爆他做鹅：「serve（服侍）男人㗎。」 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     taa¹ deoi³ zi⁶ gei² joeng⁶ maau⁶ fei¹ soeng⁴ zi⁶ fu⁶, cang⁴ caam¹ gaa¹ haau⁶ faa¹ haau⁶ cou² syun² geoi², zoi⁶ facebook se² ming⁴ zi⁶ gei² lyun² oi³ ceoi² hoeng³ wai⁴ “neoi⁵ sing³”, daan⁶ jau⁵ jan⁴ zou² ji⁵ zat¹ ji⁴ kei⁴ sing³ ceoi² hoeng³, zou² cin⁴ zoi⁶ mong⁵ soeng⁶ tou² leon⁶ keoi¹ tek³ baau³ taa¹ zou⁶ ngo^4-2: “serve (fuk⁶ si⁶) naam⁴ jan^4-2 gaa³.” [Jyutping]

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   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:鵝.

• → Guiqiong: wo

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04732
• “鵝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alternative form of 鵞: goose

• Go-on: が (ga)
• Kan-on: が (ga)

鵝 • (a) (hangeul 아)

1. (거위 아, geowi-): domesticated goose that would not fly at all, in contrast with the wild goose (雁 (기러기 안, gireogi-an)) whose skein flies in wedge or cuneiform.
2. (기러기 아, gireogi-): wild goose
   • 그려기 올히는 기리 헤요미 맛당하니 : 鵝鴨宜長數 <杜詩諺解, 1481, 7:9> ^[1]

• 鴻 (큰 기러기 홍, keun-gireogi-hong) big greylag goose
• 雁 (기러기 안, gireogi-an) wild goose, greylag goose
• 家雁 (가안, ga-an) literally, domestic or house goose

• 天鵝 (천아, cheon-a) swan

• 鵠 (고니 곡, goni-gok) swan

鵝: Hán Nôm readings: nga, ngỗng, ngổng

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