ōu
seagull
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 區 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鷗
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
(bird species of China) mew gull (Larus canus) | ||
common gull | ||
(bird species of China) black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.9771% of movies
3254th most common character in movies
3371st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9DD7 |
Shuowen | “,水鴞也。从鳥,區聲。” |
Sources
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