gòu

the crow of a male pheasant

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːs
Unicodegòu

說文解字

雄雌鳴也。雷始動,雉鳴而雊其頸。从隹从句,句亦聲。

Sources

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