a kind of bird

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approved by inralback19 · Jan 8, 2026, 01:21 PM

鳥鳥鳥鳥鳥

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Components

Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Sound component
sī, xī, tí an amphibious beast resembling a tiger with one horn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl̥ʰeː

說文解字

《說文》:“鷈,鸊鷈也。从鳥,虒聲。”

Sources

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