jiù

condor

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

就 sound component

  Sound component

jiù

  

just

Evolution

鷲 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鷲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鷲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiù

condor, vulture; vulture

Most common words with 鷲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

vulture

秃鹫

vulture

兀鹫

vulture

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4384th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+9DF2

Shuowen

“,鳥黑色多子。師曠曰:‘南方有鳥,名曰羌,黃頭赤目,五色皆備。’从鳥,就聲。”


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