a kind of pigeon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
鸟 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

骨 sound component

  Sound component

  

bone

Evolution

鹘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鹘 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鹘 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

a kind of pigeon; falcon

() 

migratory bird

Most common words with 鹘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

falcon

回鹘

Huihu, Tang dynasty name of ethnic group corresponding to modern Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wéi​wú​'ěr]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4800th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Traditional

Unicode

U+9E58


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