隹

zhuī

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

zhuī

1.short-tailed bird

CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA

Wiktionary

1.short-tailed bird
2.Original form of 唯 (wéi, “to be”).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a short‐tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). In addition to referring to 隹 (OC *tjul, “short-tailed bird”), it also is the original form of 鷕 (OC *ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ, “cry of a bird”) with the intermediate form 唯. Compare 鳥. Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *twil; compare Tibetan མཆིལ་པ (mchil pa, “a little bird”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with 鵻 (OC *tjul) "a kind of bird (turtle-dove?)" > 騅 (OC *tjul) "horse of that bird's color > horse of mixed grey and white color".

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Stroke order

Components

隹亻㇐二㇑㇐㇔

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

More examples & usage (AI)

Derived terms

隹字邊隹字边

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA