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Kanji Detail for 觜 - "ear tuft, constellation, beak, pointed shape"

  • Meaning

    觜 means "ear tuft, constellation, beak, pointed shape."

    1. Ear tuft - The pointed feathers on an owl's head.

    2. Constellation - One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions.

    3. Beak - A bird's bill.

    4. Pointed shape - Something tapering like a beak.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    beak; bill

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    turtle beak; 20th lunar mansion, determinative star λ Orionis (Meissa)

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    number 20 of the 28 constellations 二十八宿, approx. Orion 獵戶座|猎户座

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    beak

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A star name. One of the twenty-eight mansions. Today read as 貲.
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