The partridge has black-and-white speckled feathers and orange-yellow feet.
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history
鹧 never appears alone; it occurs only in 鹧鸪 ('partridge') and the famous lyric tune name 鹧鸪天. The bird radical 鸟 marks it as a bird; 庶 supplies the sound with a tone change.
culture
In classical poetry the cry of the 鹧鸪 was heard as 'you can't go, brother' and became a stock image of homesickness and parting sorrow.
