pigeon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of 鴿.

Components
鸟 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

合 sound component

  Sound component

  

to join

Evolution

鸽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鸽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鸽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

(鴿) 

pigeon, dove; Columba species (various); pigeon; dove

Most common words with 鸽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鸽子

pigeon

pigeon

信鸽

homing pigeon

放鸽子

to stand someone up

飞鸽

Flying Pigeon (famous bicycle brand, made in Tianjin since 1936)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.0937% of movies

2295th most common character in movies

2694th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+9E3D


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