Chinese Character Wiki

鴟

chī

kite

Components
氐 sound component

氐  Sound component

dī, dǐ

  

bottom

鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鴟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鴟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鴟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鸱 (鴟) 

chī

kite, horned owl; wine cups; scops owl

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰij

tsyhij

chī

鴟鵂 tsyhij.xjuw owl


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5542nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

鸱

Unicode

U+9D1F

Shuowen

“鴟，也。从隹，氐聲。鴟，籀文鴟从鳥。”


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