yīng
eagle
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 䧹 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[q](r)əŋ | 'ing | yīng | eagle, falcon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.1280% of movies
1868th most common character in movies
1927th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 24 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9DF9 |
Shuowen | “,鳥也。从隹,瘖省聲。或从人,人亦聲。,籀文从鳥。” |
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