yào

sparrow hawk

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

䍃 sound component

  Sound component

yóuyáo

  

vase, pitcher

Evolution

鷂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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yào

sparrow hawk; Circus species (various); Accipiter nisus

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4147th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+9DC2

Shuowen

“鷂,鷙鳥也。从鳥,聲。”


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