烏

Glyph origin
– a bird. Compare, of similar development.

Etymology

 * “crow; black; dark”
 * From (STEDT).  of, which retains the earlier vowel in Middle Chinese (*ʔˠa), and.
 * considers it to be, and compares it with 🇨🇬.
 * “Black; dark” is a semantic extension of “crow” – “black as a crow”. Compare, which is cognate with.


 * “sun”
 * The was thought to reside in the Sun.


 * interrogative pronoun
 * Related to the following interrogative pronouns with similar phonological shapes in Old Chinese, with differing suffixes:

Definitions

 * 1) crow; raven; rook
 * 2)  sun
 * 3)  black; dark
 * 4)  to dye black
 * 1)  black; dark
 * 2)  to dye black
 * 1)  to dye black
 * 1)  to dye black
 * 1)  to dye black
 * 1)  to dye black
 * 1)  to dye black

Compounds

 * : squid, cuttlefish

Etymology 2
From.

The goon pronunciation, so likely the initial borrowing.

Affix

 * 1) crow; raven
 * 2) black; dark
 * 3)  sun

Derived terms

 * : crow perching on a roof
 * : coracoid bone
 * : coracoid bone
 * : a rabble, a mob, a disorderly crowd
 * : silky, silkie breed of chicken
 * : coracoid bone
 * : nonexistence, nothing
 * : nonexistence, nothing

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) crow, raven

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) crow, raven

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) crow, raven

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) crow, raven

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) crow, raven