Chinese Character Wiki

雀

què, qiāo

sparrow

A small 小 bird 隹

Components
小 meaning component

小  Meaning component

xiǎo

  

small

隹 meaning component

隹  Meaning component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

雀 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
雀 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
雀 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
雀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
雀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

雀  

què

sparrow; small bird; also pr. [qiǎo]

雀  

qiāo

a freckle; lentigo

Most common words with 雀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雀

sparrow

孔雀

peacock

麻雀

sparrow

雀斑

freckles

雀跃

excited

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ewk

tsjak

què

sparrow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.9564% of movies

2503rd most common character in movies

2331st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+96C0

Shuowen

“雀，依人小鳥也。从小、隹。讀與爵同。”


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