yīng

eagle

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

Components
鸟 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

䧹 sound component

  Sound component

yīng

  

eagle

also serves as a meaning component.

Evolution

鹰 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鹰 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鹰 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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yīng

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

Most common words with 鹰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

eagle

老鹰

hawk

猫头鹰

owl

猎鹰

falcon

雄鹰

male eagle

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

18

Traditional

Unicode

U+9E70


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