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a bird resembling the secretary falcon

Components

Sound component
yín, yóu to move on
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

a bird resembling the secretary falcon Traditional

Components

Sound component
yín, yóu to move on
Meaning component
niǎo bird

bird

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdrimH[l]r[ə]m-spoison (v.)
Zhengzhangl'ums

說文解字

毒鳥也。从鳥冘聲。一名運日。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica