燕

燕 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿中心火 (TLPF), four-corner 4433₁, composition ⿳廿⿴北口灬)

• KangXi: page 683, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19429
• Dae Jaweon: page 1095, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2239, character 6
• Unihan data for U+71D5

Pictogram (象形) – a swallow.

Possibly related to 鳦 (OC *qriːd, *qrid) (Wang, 1982). Some have connected it with 咽 (OC *qiːns, “to swallow”), but it is unlikely to be related (Schuessler, 2007).

燕

1. swallow (family Hirundinidae) or swift (family Apodidae)
2. (dialectal) shuttlecock used in jianzi

   alt. forms: 毽

To distinguish the two families of birds, swifts are also called 雨燕 (yǔyàn).

• → Proto-Tai: *ʔeːnᴮ
  • Proto-Southwestern Tai: *ʔɛːnᴮ

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

燕

1. (historical) Yan, an ancient march, duchy, and kingdom of northeastern China during the Zhou dynasty
2. (historical) Ji, its capital; Yanjing; other later cities in the same area, including Beijing
3. (historical) the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms
4. a surname

• → English: Yan, Yen

燕

1. ^† Alternative form of 宴 (yàn, “to feast”).

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. swallow

• Go-on: えん (en)
• Kan-on: えん (en)
• Kun: つばめ (tsubame, 燕); つばくら (tsubakura, 燕); つばくろ (tsubakuro, 燕)
• Nanori: やすし (yasushi)

• (Tokyo) つばく​らめ [tsùbákúꜜràmè] (Nakadaka – [3])
• (Tokyo) つばくら​め [tsùbákúráꜜmè] (Nakadaka – [4])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝba̠kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠me̞]

燕(つばくらめ) • (tsubakurame) 

1. a swallow (bird)
   • c. 890: Taketori Monogatari (page 11)

     「[...] 石上の中納言には、燕（つばくらめ）の持たる子安のかい、ひとつ取りて賜へ」

   • 931–938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō (book 7, page 29)

     是我邦所謂豆波久良米也

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) つばめ [tsùbámé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝba̠me̞]

Wikispecies

燕(つばめ) • (tsubame) 

1. a barn swallow

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ツバメ.

• 雨(アマ)燕(ツバメ) (amatsubame)

燕(つばめ) • (Tsubame) 

1. a place name, such as that of Tsubame City in Niigata Prefecture

• Horiuchi, Hideaki; Ken Akiyama (1997) Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.

燕 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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燕: Hán Nôm readings: yến, én, yên, nhạn, hiên

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