鳥

See also 鸟, and 烏

See also 焉, and 舄

Translingual

Stroke order

simplified	鸟
traditional	鳥

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a bird with a dangling tail.

Compare 烏 (“crow”), which is very similar, of similar origin, and 隹, which originated from a similar image of a bird, but is today rather more abstract and less recognizable.

Compare also 馬 (“horse”), whose current form is similar (graphically, 灬 for claws/legs).

Originally pronounced “diau” but in Mandarin changed to “niǎo” to avoid confusion with 屌 (“dangle cock”).

	鳥	鳥
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

鳥 (radical 196 鳥+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹日卜火 (HAYF), four-corner 2732₇)

1. bird
2. KangXi radical 196

Synonyms

• (bird): 隹

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/鳥
• 島 (岛)

References

• KangXi: page 1480, character 52
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46634
• Dae Jaweon: page 2012, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4613, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9CE5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鳥 (simplified 鸟, Yale niu5)

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Japanese

Kanji

鳥 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちょう (chō)
• Kun: とり (tori)
• Nanori: か (ka), と (to)

Compounds

Compounds

鳥瞰 鳥瞰図 鳥獣 鳥葬 鳥類 (ちょうるい, chōrui): bird, birds; avian

火の鳥 (ひのとり, hi no tori): a phoenix in Western mythology 不死鳥 (ふしちょう, fushichō): a undying bird 雷鳥 (らいちょう, raichō): a ptarmigan, a snow grouse 雷神鳥 (らいじんちょう, raijinchō): a thunderbird 鳥居 (とりい, torii): a 'bird perch'; a shrine gate

Noun

鳥 (hiragana とり, romaji tori)

1. a flying animal; a bird

Derived terms

• 鳥インフルエンザ

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Korean

Hanja

鳥 (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune-Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鳥 (simplified 鸟, pinyin niǎo (niao3), Wade-Giles niao³)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ ni̯ɑʊ̯˨˩˦ ]

Noun

鳥 (traditional, Pinyin niǎo, measure word 隻, simplified 鸟)

1. (Elementary Mandarin) bird

Compounds

• 鳥槍
• 鳥盡弓藏

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Middle Chinese

Han character

鳥 (*děu)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

鳥 (POJ chiáu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鳥 (điểu, đeo, đéo, đẽo)