diāo

eagle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

周 sound component

  Sound component

zhōu

  

cycle

Evolution

鵰 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鵰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𫛲 () 

diāo

eagle, vulture; Aquila species (various)

() 

diāo

bird of prey

Most common words with 鵰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雕塑

a statue

雕像

sculpture

to carve

雕刻

to carve

冰雕

ice sculpture

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

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+9D70

Shuowen

“雕,鷻也。从隹,周聲。鵰,籀文雕从鳥。”


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