雀 (què)
Sparrow; small bird
How 雀 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 小 — small
- Traditional
- 雀
- Simplified
- 雀 (unchanged)
Components
- 小 small
- 丿 bend
- 隹 small bird
雀 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- qiāo
- a freckle; lentigo
- què
- small bird; sparrow; also pr. [qiao3]
Common words using 雀
- 雀巢 quècháo
- Nestlé
- 麻雀 máquè
- sparrow; (topolect) mahjong
- 孔雀 kǒngquè
- peacock
- 朱雀 zhūquè
- Vermilion Bird (the seven mansions of the south sky)
- 燕雀 yànquè
- Eurasian finch or brambling (Fringilla montifringilla); fig. small fry
- 雀斑 quèbān
- freckles
- 雀躍 quèyuè
- to frolic for joy; to jump like a sparrow; to gambol excitedly
- 雲雀 yúnquè
- lark; skylark
- 孔雀河 kǒngquèhé
- Peacock river in Xinjiang
- 金絲雀 jīnsīquè
- canary
- 門可羅雀 ménkěluóquè
- you can net sparrows at the door (idiom); completely deserted
- 雀子 qiāozi
- a freckle; lentigo
雀 in a sentence
麻雀在台灣是很常見的鳥。
Máquè zài Táiwān shì hěn chángjiàn de niǎo.
“Sparrows are very common birds in Taiwan.”
How common is 雀?
雀 is the 2,326th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.1% of all running text.
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