hè
crane
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 隺 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鶴
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
crane | ||
manifestly superior | ||
(bird species of China) Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus) | ||
favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes | ||
red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤrawk | haewk | hè | white (of birds) |
*[g]ˤawk | hak | hè | crane |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0892% of movies
2989th most common character in movies
2624th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9DB4 |
Shuowen | “鶴，鳴九臯，聲聞于天。从鳥，隺聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
