yīng
oriole
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 𤇾 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鶯
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
nightingale | ||
oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers | ||
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) | ||
willow warbler | ||
prosperity abounds (idiom) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2902nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9DAF |
Shuowen | “鶯，鳥也。从鳥，榮省聲。《詩》曰：‘有鶯其羽。’” |
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