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Kanji Detail for 烏 - "crow, black, clever"
烏
- Meaning
烏 means "crow, black, clever."
Crow - A bird of the crow family.
Black - The color black.
Alas - An exclamation of sorrow or wonder.
Sun - The sun (containing the mythical crow).
Question word - "How" or "why" in classical Chinese.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
crow; raven
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
crow, rook, raven; black, dark
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1 ke4 lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1 zi1 bie2 ke4 si1 tan3] etc; surname Wu
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
crow, rook, raven; black, dark
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A bird name. Commonly called crow. Pure black in color. It feeds its mother in return, hence filial piety is called 烏鳥之私 (the devotion of the crow). | Black is called 烏. As in calling a black horse 烏騅. | 烏呼. An exclamatory particle. Also written as 嗚呼 (alas). | 烏烏. The sound of singing, an onomatopoeia. | A particle. Meaning "where" or "how." As in 烏有, meaning "how can there be" or "where is there."
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