chú

chick

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

Components
隹 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhuī

  

bird

刍 sound component

  Sound component

chú

  

mow, cut grass

Evolution

雏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
雏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
雏 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
雏 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chú

chick, fledging; infant, toddler; chick; young bird

Most common words with 雏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

chick

雏形

embryonic form

雏菊

daisy

雏鸡

chick

雏儿

bimbo

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2975% of movies

3230th most common character in movies

3484th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+96CF


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