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báikuàngwēngyīng

white-spectacled warbler

bái, bai white

Origin unclear. Possibly depicts a thumb or a person's face.

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Qin 221-206 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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Component uses

Sound (8 of 15 verified)

百怕伯迫拍帕柏泊舶魄珀帛粕铂樂

Meaning (2 of 13 verified)

的珀皓皖皑皋皙皎皤皅皦皒皚

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	baek	bˤrak	white

說文解字

《說文》：“白，西方色也。陰用事，物色白。从入合二。二，陰數。，古文白。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.625漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

kuàng eye socket

Components

目 Meaning component

mù eye

eye

匡 Sound component

kuāng, wāng correct

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	kʰʷaŋ

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

wēng Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

yīng oriole Simplified

Simplified form of 鶯. Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 𤇾 represents the sound.

Components

𤇾 Sound Simplified component

yìng glimmer

鸟 Meaning component

niǎo bird

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

鶲 Traditional

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

oriole Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 𤇾 represents the sound.

Components

𤇾 Sound component

yìng glimmer

鳥 Meaning component

niǎo bird

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		qreːŋ
Unicode	qɛng

說文解字

《說文》：“鶯，鳥也。从鳥，榮省聲。《詩》曰：‘有鶯其羽。’”

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)