tí
pelican
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 弟 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
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。” |
Sources
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