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鳧
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
凫
🇨🇳

duck

HSK 10
Nature →Animals →Birds
fú
フ
けり、かも
부
Components
鳥 bird+ 几 small table =
鳧 duck
鳥 Meaning component
bird
bird
几
jī small table
Notes
Similar Characters
梟 owl (trad)鳩 dove (trad)鳳 male phoenix (trad)鳴 twitter (trad/jp)鳶 milvus (trad)鴂 the tailor-bird鴆 a bird resembling (trad)鴇 bustard (trad)鴈 wild-goose (archaic)鴉 raven (trad)鴒 species (trad)鴔 bird (trad)鴕 ostrich (trad)鴛 male mandarin duck (trad)鴞 owl (trad)鴟 owl (trad)鴣 species (trad)鴦 female mandarin duck (trad)鴨 duck (trad)鴯 swallow (alt) (trad)
Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鳧
Regular
Modern
Chinese
凫 / 鳧 [fú]
mallard; Anas platyrhyncha
Japanese
鳧 (rare) 、 計里 (rare) けり 、 ケリ 同音
noun usually kana gray-headed lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus); grey-headed lapwing
鴨 、 鳧 (rare) かも 、 カモ 同音

noun

  1. usually kana duck
  2. usually kana easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
彼はお人よしのカモから大金を巻き上げました。
He made heaps of money by ripping off naive suckers.
CHINESE WORDS (4)
凫水 [fú​shuǐ] #66,780
to swim
棉凫 [mián​fú]
(bird species of China) cotton pygmy goose (Nettapus coromandelianus)
凫翁 [fú​wēng]
watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)
凫茈 [fú​cí]
see 荸薺|荸荠[bí​qí]
JAPANESE WORDS (5)
⭐ 鴨 [かも] #16,963
duck
鳧 [けり] #111,650
gray-headed lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus)
鳧鐘 [ふしょう] #250,962
temple bell
田鳧 [たげり]
northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
頭黒鶏冠鳧 [ずぐろとさかげり]
masked lapwing (Vanellus miles)