liú

the owl

Components
留 sound component

  Sound component

liú

  

to stay

鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鶹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鶹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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liú

the owl; see 鵂鶹|鸺鹠[xiū​liú]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9349th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+9DB9

Shuowen

“,鳥少美長醜為離。从鳥,畱聲。”


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