棉凫
mián​fú

cotton pygmy goose

棉 mián cotton

Silk 帛 picked off a tree 木

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
帛
帛 Meaning component
bó silks

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangmen
Unicodemiɛn

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

凫 fú wild duck Simplified

Components

鸟
鸟 Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

几
几 Unknown component
jǐ, jī small table

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

鳧 fú wild duck Traditional

Components

鳥
鳥 Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

几
几 Unknown component
jǐ, jī small table

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangba
Unicodebhio

說文解字

舒鳧，鶩也。从鳥𠘧聲。

Sources

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