pelican

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

弟 sound component

  Sound component

  

younger brother

Evolution

鵜 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鵜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鵜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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pelican

Most common words with 鵜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鹈鹕

pelican

pelican

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5868th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9D5C

Shuowen

“鴺,鴺胡,污澤也。从鳥,夷聲。鵜,鴺或从弟。”


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