Definitions
a kind of hawk
Etymology
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The character "鶗" is structurally composed of the phonetic component "帝" and the semantic radical "鳥", clearly classifying it within the category of birds. Etymologically, it appears almost exclusively in the disyllabic term "鶗鴂", which in early Chinese texts designated a specific bird, commonly understood to be a kind of cuckoo. Its meaning has not broadened but has stayed consistently linked to this ornithological reference, with the character's form and function remaining tied to this narrow lexical context.