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鷹

yīng

eagle

Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 䧹 represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

䧹 sound component

䧹  Sound component

yīng

  

eagle

䧹 also serves as a meaning component.

Evolution

鷹 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鷹 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鷹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鹰 (鷹) 

yīng

eagle, falcon; Accipiter species (various); eagle; falcon; hawk

Most common words with 鷹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鹰

eagle

老鹰

hawk

猫头鹰

owl

猎鹰

falcon

雄鹰

male eagle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[q](r)əŋ

'ing

yīng

eagle, falcon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.1280% of movies

1868th most common character in movies

1927th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

鹰

Unicode

U+9DF9

Shuowen

“，鳥也。从隹，瘖省聲。或从人，人亦聲。，籀文从鳥。”


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