鸊 (pì): (used in 鸊鷉) grebe (a diving wa…

Meanings

一只小鸊鷉扎进水里，又在远处冒出来。

Yì zhī xiǎo pì tī zhā jìn shuǐli, yòu zài yuǎnchù mào chūlái.

A little grebe dived under and surfaced again far away.

history

鸊 is not used on its own and is a variant of 䴙. It appears only in the bird name 鸊鷉 (grebe), now usually written with the simpler forms 䴙䴘.

register

Archaic variant glyph, seen in old texts and bird-name notes, not in everyday writing.

radical

鸟 niǎo

bird

鸟 is the bird radical on the right, marking the meaning: 鸊 is a diving water bird, the grebe.

phonetic

辟 pì

to open up; monarch

辟 supplies the sound pì. The same phonetic appears in 壁 (wall) and 避 (to avoid).

鸊 pì