鳥 - Dong Chinese dictionary

niǎo, diǎo

bird

Pictograph of a bird.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

鸟 (鳥)

niǎo

bird; KangXi radical 196; CL:隻|只[zhī],群[qún]; (dialect) to pay attention to; (intensifier) damned; goddam

鸟 (鳥)

diǎo

variant of 屌[diǎo]; penis

Most common words with 鳥

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	鸟	bird
	鸟儿	bird
	小鸟	penis (kiddie term)
	鸟类	birds
	雷鸟	capercaillie (Lagopus, several species)

Component uses

Meaning component in 76 characters (6 verified)

鳳鷹鴨鶴鵲鷦鳴鵰鴻鵬鵝鴉鴈鴿鶯鵑鷗鳩鸚鵡鴛梟鴦鷂鵠鴕鶉鷲鷺鸕鶚鵪鶻鷸鳶鴇鴣鶩鷀鴆鴰鳧鶘鷓鷙鷯鵒鸝鴟鵓鶇鵜鵂䴉鴯鶼鶓鴞鴴鵯鴒鶺鵾鶖鶊鴂鶹鶬鴔鷈鷿鷫鸊鷉鷄鸘

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

島裊鸞鴴

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*tˤiwʔ	tewX	niǎo	bird

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 24.1711% of movies

1187th most common character in movies

1263rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	11
Simplified	鸟
Unicode	U+9CE5
Shuowen	“鳥，長尾禽緫名也。象形，鳥之足似匕，从匕。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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