Chinese Character Wiki

鷸

yù

snipe

Components
矞 sound component

矞  Sound component

yù

  

bore with awl

鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鷸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鹬 (鷸) 

yù

snipe, kingfisher; Tringa species (various); common snipe; sandpiper

Most common words with 鷸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鹬

sandpiper

鹬蚌相争

lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both) (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4881st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

鹬

Unicode

U+9DF8

Shuowen

“鷸，知天將雨鳥也。从鳥，矞聲。《禮記》曰：‘知天文者冠鷸。’ ，鷸或从遹。”


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