yù
snipe
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鷸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sandpiper | ||
lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both) (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4881st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 23 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9DF8 |
Shuowen | “鷸,知天將雨鳥也。从鳥,矞聲。《禮記》曰:‘知天文者冠鷸。’ ,鷸或从遹。” |
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