Chinese Character Wiki

鷙

zhì

hawk

Components
執 sound component

執  Sound component

zhí

  

hold in hand

鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鷙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鸷 (鷙) 

zhì

hawk, vulture; fierce; brutal; bird of prey

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[t]ip-s

tsyijH

zhì

bird of prey


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5330th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

鸷

Unicode

U+9DD9

Shuowen

“鷙，擊殺鳥也。从鳥，執聲。”


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