Bird-name character

The older character has several bird-related glosses.

《爾雅》, a classical Chinese dictionary, describes 鳭鷯 as a bird that splits reeds and eats insects inside the stalk. Its commentator Guo Pu adds that it resembles a sparrow, with blue-green markings and a long tail.

Two rhyme dictionaries—books that group characters by sound—preserve other readings: 《廣韻》 links a 鳭 compound to a yellow bird, while 《集韻》 records the bird's call. These entries retain more than one bird reference in the older character's record.