Zi:鸟
鸟(F鳥) [niǎo] bird; 鸟鸣 bird call/song; 鸟窝 bird's nest; 鸟兽 birds & beasts; (radical 196, 鸟部) [diǎo] [dǎo] [què] cf. 鳥
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹niǎo(r)* 鸟[鳥] {B} n. bird; birdie
►diǎo 屌/鸟[-/鳥] n. 〈environment:〉 coll. penis; cock
The simple-form character 鸟 (5 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 鳥 (11 strokes), replacing the full-form component (7 strokes) with (4 strokes), and 灬 (4 strokes) with 一 (1 stroke).
The Shuōwén Seal form of 鸟/鳥() niǎo ‘long-tailed bird’ is said to depict a bird with a long tail, with bill above, wings and tail to the right, and below a foot 匕() like that of 乌/烏() wū ‘(black) crow’ (in which the eye cannot be seen); cf. 隹() zhuī ‘short-tailed bird’.
The full-form character 鳥 uses four dots 灬 (like 火 ‘fire’, as in 魚) as an abbrev. of the feet 匕() in the Seal form; in the full-form part (7 strokes), the top shape 白 depicts the bird's head/beak, with a horizontal line in the center for the black eye; cf. 乌/烏() wū ‘crow’ (in which the 丶/一 eye is omitted).
Note: In the simple-form character 鸟, the full-form component 灬 is abbrev. to a single line 一 (as in 鱼), and the full-form part (7 strokes) becomes (4 strokes); cf. 乌 wū ‘crow’.
Compare: 乌/烏() wū ‘crow’; 马/馬(𢒠𢒗) mǎ ‘horse’; 鱼/魚(𤋳𤉯) yú ‘fish’; 隹() zhuī ‘short-tailed bird’.
Compare: 鸟类 ‘birds’, 鸟兽 ‘birds and beasts’; 禽() qín ‘beasts/birds’, 禽类 ‘birds’, 禽兽 ‘birds and beasts’.
Compare: 羽(𦏲) yǔ ‘feathers’ (羽翅 ‘wing’); 翅(翄𦐊翨) chì ‘wing’ (翅膀); 翼(𩙺) yì ‘wing’ (翼翅); 飞/飛(𩙱) fēi ‘to fly’.
Compare: 鹿() lù ‘deer’, 彘() zhì ‘pig/swine’, 能/熊() xióng ‘bear’ (with similar 比/匕 feet in the Seal).
►references: Wieger:138a; Henshall:174; Karlgren:AD662; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:7.4613.2; Lindqvist:92; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:018.0.10; Wáng(1993):56; EDOC:0
►components: 一乌丶
►Cantonese: niuh/
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Unicode: U+9E1F
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