CJK Unified Ideograph-9D6F

It names a bulbul in Japanese and several bird terms in Chinese. The earliest written witness found in the sources is a Han dynasty text using 鵯鶋 for a crow-like bird, while Chinese dictionaries preserve that older compound. In Japanese, the same written form became ひよどり (hiyodori), the brown-eared bulbul.

It was made to write bird names, not to carry a symbolic message. Its structure is phonetic-semantic: 鳥 marks the bird category, while 卑 supplies the sound. In Japan, Wamyōshō records the reading ひえどり around 918; a 1173 court record describes 鵯合, a bird-song contest with divided sides, music, and dance.

Is 鵯 the same as 鹎?

Yes — 鹎 is the simplified Chinese form of 鵯. Use 鵯 in traditional Chinese writing and 鹎 in simplified Chinese writing; they are script counterparts. Do not treat 鵯鶋 or 鵯鵊 as alternate glyphs: they are compounds, and the second character changes the word and its bird reference.

How do I type 鵯?

Use the reading or the character components in your IME. Japanese input reaches it through ひよどり; Chinese input depends on whether your layout returns traditional or simplified characters. If a font shows a box, the character is present but that font lacks a glyph. Copy it from the palette above when typing is awkward.