xué

oriental bullfinch

Evolution

鷽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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xué

oriental bullfinch, weaver bird; Pyrrhula species (various); various species of finch (old)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤruk

'aewk

xué

a kind of bird

*m-qˤruk

haewk

xué

a kind of bird


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8811th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+9DFD

Shuowen

“鷽,雗鷽,山鵲,知來事鳥也。从鳥,學省聲。雤,鷽或从隹。”


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