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觜

zī, zuǐ

beak

Phonosemantic compound. 角 represents the meaning and 此 represents the sound.

Components
此 sound component

此  Sound component

cǐ

  

this

角 meaning component

角  Meaning component

jiǎo, jué

  

horn

Evolution

觜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
觜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

觜  

zī

beak; number 20 of the 28 constellations 二十八宿, approx. Orion 獵戶座|猎户座

觜  

zuǐ

variant of 嘴, mouth; spout (of teapot etc)

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

嘴

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

嘴

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ojʔ

tsjweX

zuǐ

beak


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7627th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+89DC

Shuowen

“觜，鴟舊頭上角觜也。一曰觜觿也。从角，此聲。”


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