字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE乙6664 (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
鳥
鳥 bird
とり tori
11 strokesRadical of 11 kanjiPart of 9
Your ink in 鳥0% painted · 0 of 11 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A bird with a dangling tail.
Source: Wiktionary, 鳥 (rev. 93750960), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the bird perched on a branch, ready to take flight! The top horizontal line is the head, the box with a dot is the sharp eye, and the strokes below show the beautiful feathers of the wings and tail. It capture the elegance and freedom of all winged creatures that soar through the sky.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates birds, flying creatures, the act of chirping or singing, or things related to flight
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 鳥, with sourced origins
- 鳴chirpメイ · なく
- 鶴craneカク · つる
寉sound + 鳥
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 鳩pigeonキュウ · はと
九sound + 鳥
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 鳥 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 11 kanji