zhāozhōu

chirp

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

周 sound component

  Sound component

zhōu

  

cycle

Evolution

啁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
啁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhāo

chirp, twitter, twittering

 

zhōu

twittering of birds

Most common words with 啁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

啁啾

chirp

twittering of birds

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤriw

traew

zhāo

twitter, noise


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5549th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5541

Shuowen

“啁,啁嘐也。从口,周聲。”


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