diāo

engrave

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

Components
隹 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhuī

  

bird

周 sound component

  Sound component

zhōu

  

cycle

Evolution

雕 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
雕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
雕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

diāo

engrave, inlay, carve; exhaust; used for U+9D70 an eagle, vulture; to carve; to engrave; shrewd; bird of prey

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diāo

variant of [diāo], to engrave

Most common words with 雕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雕塑

a statue

雕像

sculpture

to carve

雕刻

to carve

冰雕

ice sculpture

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤiw

tew

diāo

bird of prey


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.0959% of movies

2035th most common character in movies

1829th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+96D5

Shuowen

“雕,鷻也。从隹,周聲。鵰,籀文雕从鳥。”


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