䧹
yīng

eagle

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Original meaning: chest; breast

Depicts a bird (隹) with a mark to indicate the location of the chest, now written as 膺. 人 was later added to represent the sound. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

人
人 Sound component
rén, ren person

Modern form looks like 广.

Change in sound
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.
◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Mark to indicate the location of the chest.

隹
隹 Iconic component
zhuī, cuī, wéi bird

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqɯŋ

說文解字

《說文》：“，鳥也。从隹，瘖省聲。或从人，人亦聲。，籀文从鳥。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)