黃鳥

Chinese

		yellow	bird
trad. (黃鳥)		黃	鳥
simp. (黄鸟)		黄	鸟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huángniǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄋㄧㄠˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huángniǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄋㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huángniǎo
    • Wade–Giles: huang²-niao³
    • Yale: hwáng-nyǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwangneau
    • Palladius: хуанняо (xuannjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ ni̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: hwang tewX

Rime
Character	黃	鳥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	胡光切	都了切
Baxter	hwang	tewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɑŋ/	/teuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɑŋ/	/teuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɑŋ/	/teuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaŋ/	/tɛwX/
Li Rong	/ɣuɑŋ/	/teuX/
Wang Li	/ɣuɑŋ/	/tieuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwɑŋ/	/tieuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huáng	diǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wong4	diu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-kʷˤaŋ  tˤiwʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːŋ  tɯːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	黃	鳥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huáng	niǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ hwang ›	‹ tewX ›
Old Chinese	/*N-kʷˁaŋ/	/*tˁiwʔ/
English	yellow	bird
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	黃	鳥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	5380	9511
Phonetic component	黄	鳥
Rime group	陽	幽
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	黃	鳥
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːŋ/	/*tɯːwʔ/
Notes	甲金文象繫市（韍）之圍腰綬帶，取唐蘭釋黃爲衡綬但不取其尪本字說。非光聲

Noun

黃鳥

1. black-naped oriole

   • 黃鳥于飛、集于灌木、其鳴喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     黄鸟于飞、集于灌木、其鸣喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Huángniǎo yú fēi, jí yú guànmù, qí míng jiējiē. [Pinyin]

     The yellow orioles flew about, and collected on the thickly growing trees; their pleasant notes resounding far.

   • 翩翩黃鳥，雌雄相依。
     念我之獨；誰其與歸？ [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: Yuri of Goguryeo,《黃鳥歌》"Song of the Yellow Bird", [17 BCE]

     Pyeonpyeon hwangjo, ja-ung sang-ui.
     Nyeom a ji dok, su gi yeo gwi? [Sino-Korean]

     Lightly and sprightly fly the yellow orioles, the female and male lean on each other.
     I think of my loneliness; whom will I go back with?

Synonyms

• 鸝／鹂 (lí)
• 黃鸝／黄鹂 (huánglí)
• 黃鶯／黄莺 (huángyīng)
• 鶬鶊／鸧鹒 (cānggēng)

References

• Mao Commentary, "Ge Tan".
• 朱熹 Zhu Xi,《詩經集傳》Collected Commentaries on the Classic of Poetry, "volumes 1-2"

Further reading

• Ptak, Roderich & Zhang, Yanfei. (2016). "Huangniao , canggeng und ‚verwandte‘ Vogelnamen in Zhou- und Han-Texten: Ein Beitrag zur historischen Ornithologie (Huangniao, canggeng and 'related' bird-names in Zhou and Han texts: a Contribution to Historical Ornithology)". Monumenta Serica. 64. 303-331.