鷹
yīng HSK7

eagle

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meaning

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

Components

鳥
鳥 Meaning component
䧹
䧹 SoundMeaning component

䧹 also serves as a meaning component.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'ing[q](r)əŋ eagle, falcon

說文解字

《說文》：“，鳥也。从隹，瘖省聲。或从人，人亦聲。，籀文从鳥。”

Sources

Character origin
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)