隹
zhuī

bird

Pictograph of a bird.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (9 of 22 verified)

推维谁唯堆霍惟淮椎稚锥帷睢暹骓碓萑維錐誰騅倠

Meaning (7 of 19 verified)

难雄雅截焦雇雕雌崔瞿雏雉雎難雞雝雐雛閵

Iconic (16)

集翟隼隽進離隻雔羅隺雋奪雈䧹寉奮

Simplified (1)

准

Deleted (1)

夺

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

蔺

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsywijtur a kind of bird

說文解字

《說文》：“隹，鳥之短尾緫名也。象形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.284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)