What 鷯 means
The compound tells you which bird. The old Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi was submitted in 121 CE; it parses 鷯 as bird component 鳥 plus sound component 尞, and gives 刀鷯/鳭鷯 for a bird that splits reeds to eat insects.
The Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosophical text, uses 鷦鷯’s one-branch nest to picture contentment. Zhang Hua’s Western Jin poem 鷦鷯賦 contrasts its modest needs with grand birds serving people.
Cantonese references, as of 2026, use 鷯哥/了哥 for a myna that mimics bird and human voices. Standard written Chinese uses 八哥 or 鴝鵒 for that bird; bare 鷯 is too broad to mean myna.
Who writes 鷯
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鷯 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 鷯
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- 鷯 · 鹩 · 鷦鷯 · 鷯哥 · 了哥 · 刀鷯 · wren · myna
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鷯\9DEFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.