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鶩
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鹜
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duck (iii)

HSK 10
Nature →Animals →Birds
wù
ボク、ブ、ム
あひる
목
Components
敄 to put forth effort+ 鳥 bird =
鶩 duck (iii)
敄 Phonetic component
wù to put forth effort
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鳥 Meaning component
bird
bird
Notes
Similar Characters
婺 name of a star蝥 a fly which鍪 an iron pan騖 rush (trad)骛 about (simp)鹜 duck (simp)瞀 to look at closely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)
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
鹜
Regular
Modern
Chinese
鹜 / 鶩 [wù]
duck
Japanese
家鴨 (rare) 、 鶩 (rare) アヒル 、 あひる 同音
noun usually kana domestic duck
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
アヒル達は池のあちこちを泳いでいた。
Ducks were swimming about on the pond.
CHINESE WORDS (7)
趋之若鹜 [qū​zhī​ruò​wù] #45,022
to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable
刻鹄类鹜 [kè​hú​lèi​wù]
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
外鹜 [wài​wù]
to get involved in things which are not one's business
旁鹜 [páng​wù]
to be inattentive
鸡鹜 [jī​wù]
petty or mean persons
驰鹜 [chí​wù]
to move swiftly
鹜舲 [wù​líng]
small boat
JAPANESE WORDS (2)
⭐ 家鴨 [アヒル] #59,820
domestic duck
家鶏野鶩 [かけいやぼく]
bored by the familiar, intrigued by novelty