zhuó

to peck

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

豖 sound component

  Sound component

chù

  

a shackled pig

Evolution

啄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
啄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhuó

to peck; (Cant.) to slander

Most common words with 啄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to peck

啄木鸟

woodpecker

啄食

(of a bird) to peck at food

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə-tˤ<r>ok

traewk

zhuó

to peck


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3449th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5544

Shuowen

“啄,鳥食也。从口,豖聲。”


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