mynah bird

Components

Sound component
valley, ravine
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangloɡ
Unicodeiok

說文解字

鴝鵒也。从鳥谷聲。古者鴝鵒不踰泲。

Sources

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

mynah bird Simplified

Components

Sound component
valley, ravine
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode