Chinese Character Wiki

鵂

xiū

horned owl

Components
休 sound component

休  Sound component

xiū

  

rest

鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鵂 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鵂 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
鵂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鵂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鸺 (鵂) 

xiū

horned owl, scops chinensis; bird of ill omen; owl

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰ(r)u

xjuw

xiū

鴟鵂 tsyhij.xjuw owl


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5975th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

鸺

Unicode

U+9D42

Shuowen

“舊，舊，舊留也。从萑，臼聲。鵂，舊或从鳥，休聲。”


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