鴕

Information about character(s)

Radical: 鳥
Radical Strokes: 11
Additional Strokes: 5
Total Strokes: 16
Simplified Form: 鸵

Pronunciation

Pinyin: tuó
Cantonese: to4
JapaneseOn: TA DA
Korean: THA

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: ostrich; Struthio camelus

CE-Dict: ostrich

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.an ostrich

康熙字典文字版 【亥集中】【鳥字部】鴕
【集韻】唐何切，音駝。鴕鳥似雉。【晉書·張華傳】武庫封閉甚密，其中忽有雉雊。華曰：此必蛇化爲雉也。開視雉側，果有蛇蛻焉。又【前漢·西域傳】安息國有大馬爵。【師古註】《廣志》云：大爵，頸及膺身，蹄似橐駝，色蒼，舉頭高八九尺，張翅丈餘，食大麥。○按大馬爵似橐駝。本作駝，後人以鳥之名，攺馬從鳥。《張華傳》所云蛇化雉者，本作蛇，因其化雉，亦攺虫从鳥耳。

CF-Dict: autruche

Han-De-Dict: Strauß (u.E.) (S, Bio)/Vogel Strauß (Struthio camelus) (u.E.) (S, Bio)