鸴 (xué): (archaic) a small songbird; oft…

Meanings

1 (archaic) a small songbird; often identified as the bullfinch or a jay-like bird
2 (classical) a kind of mountain magpie mentioned in ancient texts

Characters

鸴

xué

small songbird (archaic)

Examples

HSK 7-9

古书中的鸴，今天多被认为是一种小型鸣禽。

Gǔshū zhōng de xué, jīntiān duō bèi rènwéi shì yī zhǒng xiǎoxíng míngqín.

The xué bird of ancient texts is now usually identified as a kind of small songbird.

HSK 7-9

《庄子》里提到过鸴鸠。

《 Zhuāngzǐ 》 lǐ tídào guò xué jiū.

The Zhuangzi mentions the xué-jiū bird.

Tips

history

鸴 appears in 《庄子·逍遥游》 as 鸴鸠 - the small bird that laughs at the giant 鹏 Peng's cosmic flight, content to hop from tree to tree. The character pairs phonetic 学 with the 鸟 'bird' radical.

Components

pictograph

鸴 xué

small finch (literary)

Rare literary character naming a small finch, simplified from traditional 鷽. Visually built as 学 (study) over 鸟 (bird), but the glyph appears only in classical bird-name contexts and is not analysed into independent components in modern stroke data. Treated here as a single bird-pictograph entry; the top 学 is purely phonetic and carries no 'study' meaning.

No stroke data for 鸴; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.