què

magpie

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

昔 sound component

  Sound component

  

in the past, ancient times

Definitions

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què

magpie; Pica species (various)

Most common words with 鵲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

magpie

喜鹊

(bird species of China) Eurasian magpie (Pica pica)

鹊桥

magpie bridge across the Milky Way between Altair and Vega where Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed an annual meeting

扁鹊

秦越人[Qín​Yuè​rén] (407-310 BC), Warring States physician known for his medical skills, nicknamed Bian Que after the earliest known Chinese physician allegedly from the 黃帝|黄帝[Huáng​dì] era

鹊巢鸠占

to reap where one has not sown

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]ak

tshjak

què

magpie


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3525th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+9D72


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