zhuī
bird
Pictograph of a bird.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tur | tsywij | zhuī | a kind of bird |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5837th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+96B9 |
Shuowen | “隹,鳥之短尾緫名也。象形。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.284
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