鵝

Glyph origin
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Etymology
From 🇨🇬; cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. However, the final consonants of the proposed cognates are possibly irreconcilable; they could instead be independently coined through onomatopoeia.

Related to ; see there for more.

Definitions

 * 1)  (as opposed to a wild goose – )

Kanji

 * : goose

Hanja

 * 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
 * 3) * 그려기 올히는 기리 헤요미 맛당하니 : 鵝鴨宜長數 &lt;杜詩諺解, 1481, 7:9&gt;

Synonyms

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

Compounds

 * 天鵝 (천아, cheon-a) swan