turquoise kingfisher

Components

Sound component
pay respects
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsɯwɢ

說文解字

鷫鷞也。五方神鳥也。東方發明,南方焦明,西方鷫鷞,北方幽昌,中央鳳皇。从鳥肅聲。

Sources

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

turquoise kingfisher Simplified

Components

Sound component
pay respects
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode