鵲
què

magpie

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

Components

鳥
鳥 Meaning component
niǎo bird
昔
昔 Sound component
xī, cuò in the past, ancient times

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshjak[tsʰ]ak magpie

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart