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鹘

gǔ

Character Traditional 鶻

What 鹘 means

1. used in {鹘鸼|gǔ zhōu}

Other readings

鹘 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• húfalcon; migratory bird

Example sentences

• 学回鹘语吧！
  Learn Uyghur!

Words starting with 鹘

• 鹘鸼gǔ zhōuturtledove

Words containing 鹘

• 回鹘Huí húHuihu, ancient name of an ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs 维吾尔族

Characters built on 骨

These share the phonetic component 骨 (gǔ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 骷kūused in 骷髅
• 髑dúused in 髑髅

Characters that look like 鹘

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 骸háibones of the body
• 愆qiānfault; transgression
• 鹑chún(bound form) quail
• 鹊quèmagpie
• 鹋miáoused in 鸸鹋
• 骶dǐ(bound form) sacrum

Sounds the same

Read gǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 股thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share
• 古ancient; old; paleo-
• 鼓drum; to drum; to strike
• 骨bone
• 谷grain; corn
• 贾merchant; to buy
• 汩confused; extinguished; (onomatopoeia) used in 汩汩
• 蛊arch. legendary venomous insect; to poison; to bewitch
• 牯bullock; cow
• 钴(chemistry) cobalt (Taiwan pr. gū); used in 钴𬭁gǔ mǔ
• 瞽blind; undiscerning
• 诂to comment; to explain