烏

raven and crow

烏 (radical 86, 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹口卜火 (HRYF), four-corner 2732₇, composition ⿱丿⿹⿺㇉⿱コ一灬)

• 𠌥(𠆿), 𭂛, 嗚(呜), 塢(坞), 𡠄, 嵨, 摀, 溩, 隖(𬮻), 㮧, 熓(𤆡), 瑦, 䃖, 螐, 䡧, 鎢(钨), 䖚, 鰞, 𠞆(𠛆), 歍, 鄔(邬)

• 乌 (Simplified Chinese)

Wikidata

• KangXi: page 670, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18998
• Dae Jaweon: page 1079, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2202, character 3
• Unihan data for U+70CF

Historical forms of the character 烏
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – a bird. Compare 鳥 (“bird”), of similar development.

“crow; black; dark”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ka-n (“crow”) (STEDT). Cognate with 鴉 (OC *qraː, “crow; raven”), which retains the earlier vowel in Middle Chinese (*ʔˠa), and 鸒 (OC *la, *las, “jackdaw”).

Schuessler (2007) considers it to be onomatopoeic, and compares it with Proto-Loloish *akᴸ (“crow”).

“Black; dark” is a semantic extension of “crow” – “black as a crow”. Compare 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ, “black”), which is cognate with 墨 (OC *mlɯːɡ, “ink”).

interrogative pronoun

Related to the following interrogative pronouns with similar phonological shapes in Old Chinese (Wang, 1982), with differing suffixes:

• 焉 (OC *qan, *qran, “how; where”)
• 惡 (OC *qaː, “how”)
• 安 (OC *qaːn, “where; how; why”)

烏

1. crow; raven; rook
2. ^† sun
3. (literary or Hakka, Min) black; dark

   • 天烏烏，欲落雨。 [Min Nan, trad.]
     天乌乌，欲落雨。 [Min Nan, simp.]

     From: 天烏烏 (A Hokkien nursery rhyme)

     Thiⁿ o͘-o͘, beh lo̍h-hō͘. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     The sky is dark; it seems like it will rain.

4. ^† to dye black
5. ^† An interrogative pronoun with a variety of meanings, including “how”, “why”, “where”, etc.
6. ^† no; not
7. A surname​.
8. (～溪) Synonym of 大肚溪, a river on Taiwan Island

• 惡／恶 (è)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: お (o)^{←を (wo, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: え (e)
• Kun: いずくんぞ (izukunzo, 烏んぞ)^{←いづくんぞ (idukunzo, historical)}; からす (karasu, 烏); なんぞ (nanzo, 烏ぞ)

烏 (karasu): a raven, a raven.

Compound of から (kara, “caw”, onomatopoeia, imitative of a crow's caw) +‎ す (su, “bird”, ancient suffix appearing in certain bird names, possibly cognate with Korean 새 (sae, “bird”)).[1] Compare the す (su) in 鶯 (uguisu), 杜鵑 (hototogisu), モズ (mozu).

• 鴉 (less common)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​らす [káꜜràsù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾa̠sɨᵝ]

烏 (hiragana からす, katakana カラス, rōmaji karasu)

1. a crow or a raven

   Synonym: 慈鳥 (じちょう, jichō)

This is the most common reading for this character when used in isolation in modern Japanese.

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as カラス.

From Middle Chinese 烏 (MC ʔuo).

The goon pronunciation, so likely the initial borrowing.

• On’yomi: Goon
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝ]

烏 (hiragana う, rōmaji u)

1. crow; raven
2. black; dark
3. (figuratively) sun
4. A Chinese interrogative for rhetorical questions.

   烏 (う)有 (ゆう) ― uyū ― (literally “not-have”) nonexistence; nothing

烏 (hiragana がらさー, romaji garasā, hiragana がるさー, romaji garusā)

Cognate with Japanese 烏 (karasu).

• 鴉

烏 (hiragana がらさー, romaji garasā, hiragana がるさー, romaji garusā)

1. crow, raven

烏 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o, Yale o)

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烏 (hiragana からすぃ, romaji karasi)

Cognate with Japanese 烏 (karasu).

• 鴉

烏 (hiragana からすぃ, romaji karasi)

1. crow, raven

烏 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

Cognate with Japanese 烏 (karasu).

• 鴉

烏 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

1. crow, raven

烏 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

Cognate with Japanese 烏 (karasu).

• 鴉

烏 (hiragana がらし, romaji garashi)

1. crow, raven

烏 (ô, o, dặng)

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烏 (hiragana がらち, romaji garachi)

Cognate with Japanese 烏 (karasu).

• 鴉

烏 (hiragana がらち, romaji garachi)

1. crow, raven