Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 弟 represents the sound.
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梟 owl (trad)鳧 duck (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)
Historical Evolution
鵜
Bronze
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鵜
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鵜
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鵜
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
鵜
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
鵜
Regular
Modern
Chinese
鹈 / 鵜 [tí]
pelican
Japanese
cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)
Example Sentences
Japanese Names
鵜 う
U surname
CHINESE WORDS (5)
鹈鹕 [tíhú] #27,668
pelican
卷羽鹈鹕 [juǎnyǔtíhú]
(bird species of China) Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus)
斑嘴鹈鹕 [bānzuǐtíhú]
(bird species of China) spot-billed pelican (Pelecanus philippensis)
白鹈鹕 [báitíhú]
(bird species of China) great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
黑腹蛇鹈 [hēifùshétí]
(bird species of China) oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster)
JAPANESE WORDS (14)
鵜呑みにする [うのみにする] #21,949
to swallow (e.g. a story)
鵜呑み [うのみ] #56,272
swallowing without chewing
鵜飼い [うかい] #56,697
cormorant fishing
鵜の目鷹の目 [うのめたかのめ] #90,114
eyes of a predator
鵜匠 [うしょう] #147,320
cormorant fisherman
川鵜 [かわう] #238,750
great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
鵜松明樺 [うだいかんば] #294,572
monarch birch (Betula maximowicziana)
ガラパゴス小羽鵜 [ガラパゴスこばねう]
flightless cormorant
ヨーロッパ姫鵜 [ヨーロッパひめう]
European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
千島鵜烏 [ちしまうがらす]
red-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax urile)
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