字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE後1.18.6 (商)
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Animals & Wildlife
隹 old bird, short-tailed bird
ふるとり furutori
8 strokesRadical of 11 kanjiPart of 22
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A short‐tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). In addition to referring to 隹 (“short-tailed bird”), it also is the original form of 鷕 (“cry of a bird”) with the intermediate form 唯.
Source: Wiktionary, 隹 (rev. 92202127), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Look at those folded wings and that sturdy little body! This is the bird that rests on the garden branches and chirps at dawn. When you see this radical, think of the quick flight, the gathering of flocking birds, and the lively nature of feathered creatures. It often appears in characters relating to high aspirations or social gatherings.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates small birds, flight, the quality of being elegant (like a bird’s song), or actions involving gathering or advancing.
What it grows into
- 集gatherシュウ · あつまる
- 難difficultナン · かたい
暵sound + 隹
A type of bird. Phonetically borrowed for other senses.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 雅graciousガ · みやび
隹 + 牙sound
It represents the meaning of a rook, which is a type of crow. By extension, it is used metaphorically to mean "elegant" or "refined.".
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with 隹 as its radical
All 11 kanji