the fishing cormorant

Components
兹 sound component

  Sound component

  

now

鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鷀 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鷀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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the fishing cormorant; variant of 鶿|[cí]

Most common words with 鷀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鸬鹚

cormorant

cormorant

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5133rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+9DC0

Shuowen

“鸞,亦神靈之精也。赤色,五采,雞形,鳴中五音,頌聲作則至。从鳥,聲。周成王時氐羌獻鸞鳥。”


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