sǔn
falcon
Pictograph of a falcon.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]urʔ | swinX | sǔn | hawk, falcon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4094th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+96BC |
Shuowen | “鵻,祝鳩也。从鳥,隹聲。隼,鵻或从隹、一。一曰鶉字。” |
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