zhān

hawk

Evolution

鸇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

() 

zhān

hawk; Butastur indicus; sparrow hawk; swift

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ta[n]

tsyen

zhān

kind of hawk or falcon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7585th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+9E07

Shuowen

“鸇,鷐風也。从鳥,亶聲。,籀文鸇从廛。”


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