zhòu

a beak

Evolution

咮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

zhòu

a beak; to peck; beak of bird; peck at

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤ<r>ok-s

trjuwH

zhòu

beak


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+54AE

Shuowen

“咮,鳥口也。从口,朱聲。”


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