é

goose

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

Components
鸟 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

我 sound component

  Sound component

  

I; me

Evolution

鹅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鹅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鹅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

é

goose; CL:|[zhī]

() 

é

variant of |[é]

Most common words with 鹅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

goose

企鹅

penguin

天鹅

swan

天鹅绒

velvet

鹅卵石

pebble

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.9495% of movies

2148th most common character in movies

2172nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+9E45


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