the fishing cormorant

Components

Sound component
zī, cí now
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhang
Unicodedzhiə
tziə

說文解字

𪈒鷀也。从鳥兹聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

the fishing cormorant Simplified

Components

Sound component
zī, cí now
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode