鹐 · qiān
to peck, as birds
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
to peck, as birds
- Mandarin
- qiān
- Cantonese
- zaam1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9E50
- Radical
- 鸟 · 196
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 鹐
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
鵮
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- qiān
- kCantonese
- zaam1
- kDefinition
- to peck, as birds
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 196'.8
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+9D6E
- kTGH
- 2013:5533
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- qiān 0910.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- qiān 296.010