鴉

Glyph origin
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Etymology
From. of. The Middle Chinese of 鴉 retains the earlier vowel.

disputes 🇨🇬 reconstructions with medial *-r-, reasoning that 鴉's place among Division II syllables (often from Old Chinese syllables containing *-r-) results rather from archaism which preserves the original vowel's quality.

Definitions

 * 1) crow; raven