Chinese Character Wiki

鴞

xiāo

owl

Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 号 represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

号 sound component

号  Sound component

hào, háo

  

call, mark

Evolution

鴞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鴞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鸮 (鴞) 

xiāo

owl; owl (order Strigiformes)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aw

hjew

xiāo

鴟鴞 tsyhij.hjew owl


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6353rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

鸮

Unicode

U+9D1E

Shuowen

“鴞，鴟鴞，寧鴂也。从鳥，号聲。”


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