隹

Usage notes
This character is used mostly as a character component. Note that, in Japanese and Korean scripts, the dot stroke (㇔) atop the radical (隹) is written from top-right to bottom-left (instead of top-left to bottom-right) as found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/隹

Glyph origin

 * a short&#x2010;tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). Compare.

Etymology
Perhaps from ; compare 🇨🇬.

Cognate with "a kind of bird (turtle-dove?)" >  "horse of that bird's color > horse of mixed grey and white color".

Definitions

 * 1)  short-tailed bird

Kanji

 * 1) bird

Noun

 * 1) the name of the "old bird" radical, e.g. 隺

Note

 * It is called "old" bird because it is contained in the character "舊"(old), to distinguish it from other bird radicals (鳥, 酉).