crow

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
鸟 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

牙 sound component

  Sound component

  

tooth

Evolution

鸦 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鸦 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

crow, raven; Corvus species (various); crow

() 

variant of |[yā]

Most common words with 鸦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

乌鸦

crow

涂鸦

graffiti

鸦片

opium (loanword)

crow

鸦片战争

the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.2127% of movies

2457th most common character in movies

2397th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+9E26


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