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鹇
xián

the silver pheasant

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Components

闲
闲 Sound component
xián fence
鸟
鸟 Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

鷳 the silver pheasant Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

說文解字

鴟也。从鳥閒聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)