a type of bird

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components

Sound component
tiger
Meaning component
zhuī, cuī, wéi bird

bird

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰʷlaː

說文解字

《說文》:“雐,鳥也。从隹,虍聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica