jiāo

wren

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
焦 sound component

  Sound component

jiāo

  

burned

鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鷦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiāo

wren; eastern wren

Most common words with 鷦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

eastern wren

鹪鹩

(bird species of China) Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5911th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+9DE6

Shuowen

“,,桃蟲也。从鳥,焦聲。”


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