xiāo
owl
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 号 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aw | hjew | xiāo | 鴟鴞 tsyhij.hjew owl |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6353rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9D1E |
Shuowen | “鴞,鴟鴞,寧鴂也。从鳥,号聲。” |
Sources
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