niǎo

curling upwards

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
衣 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

鸟 sound component

  Sound component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

Evolution

袅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
袅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

niǎo

curling upwards; wavering gently; delicate; graceful

() 

niǎo

variant of |[niǎo]

Most common words with 袅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

袅袅

rising in spirals

delicate

袅娜

slim and graceful

袅袅婷婷

(of a woman) elegant and supple

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3517th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+8885


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