cry of bird

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
bend, violate, transgress

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangrɯːds
rɯːd
Unicodelèi

說文解字

鶴鳴也。从口戾聲。

Sources

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