禿鷹

See also: 秃鹰

Chinese

		bald; blunt	eagle; falcon; hawk
trad. (禿鷹)		禿	鷹
simp. (秃鹰)		秃	鹰

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 禿(はげ)鷹(たか) (hagetaka)

"Andy Tsang": From the fact that he was bald and his war-hawk style of governance.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tūyīng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tuk¹ jing¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tūyīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tuying
  - Wade–Giles: tʻu¹-ying¹
  - Yale: tū-yīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuing
  - Palladius: туин (tuin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu⁵⁵ iŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tuk¹ jing¹
  - Yale: tūk yīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tuk⁷ jing¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tug¹ ying¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊk̚⁵ jɪŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

禿鷹

vulture (Classifier: 隻／只)

Compounds

新禿鷹 / 新秃鹰 (xīntūyīng)

Proper noun

禿鷹

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Andy Tsang (the Hong Kong Commissioner of Police from 2011 to 2015 who was accused for suppressing the protests in 2014)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
禿	鷹
はげ Hyōgai	たか Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はげたか [hàgétáká] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ha̠ɡe̞ta̠ka̠]

Noun

禿(はげ)鷹(たか) or 禿鷹(ハゲタカ) • (hagetaka)

vulture, condor

Usage notes

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

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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