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Kanji Detail for 巢 - "nest, den, home"
巢
- Meaning
巢 means "nest, den, home."
Nest - A bird's dwelling; a place of shelter.
Den - A hiding place; a lair for animals.
Home - A dwelling place; a place of safety.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
nest; living quarter in tree
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
nest, living quarter in tree
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Chao
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
nest, living quarters in tree
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Birds dwelling in trees. Such as 鵲巢鳩占, meaning occupying another's dwelling. See (Book of Odes). | Using birds and beasts as metaphors for bandits, their camps are called 巢. Such as 賊巢, 巢穴.
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