ōu

seagull

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

區 sound component

  Sound component

  

area

Evolution

鷗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ōu

seagull, tern; Larus species (various); common gull

Most common words with 鷗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

海鸥

(bird species of China) mew gull (Larus canus)

common gull

红嘴鸥

(bird species of China) black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9771% of movies

3254th most common character in movies

3371st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+9DD7

Shuowen

“,水鴞也。从鳥,區聲。”


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