啁 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

zhāo, zhōu

chirp

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 周 represents the sound.

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu

mouth

周 Sound component

zhōu

cycle

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

zhāo

chirp, twitter, twittering

zhōu

twittering of birds

Most common words with 啁

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	啁啾	chirp
	啁	twittering of birds

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*tˤriw	traew	zhāo	twitter, noise

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5549th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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