A good tutorial on the role of birds

The above is a beautiful video explanation of how to write bird characters.

The word "bird" has five pictures, with "bird" beside it. The order of bird strokes is: left, horizontal hook, dot, vertical hook and horizontal.

Bird, a common Chinese word, pronounced as you o or di o, was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Its original meaning is long-tailed bird, and later it is extended to flying insects, place names and so on.

Birds, a general term for birds of the subclass Vertebrate. Oviposition, constant body temperature, covered with feathers. The front legs become wings and can fly; The hind limb is the foot, which is used for walking or standing. There are no teeth in your mouth. Breathe with your lungs. Most birds can fly, but some can't, such as chickens, ducks, geese and ostriches. There are many kinds, all over the world.

Birds, hieroglyphs. The word "bird" in Shang Dynasty was generally made into the shape of beak, head, body, feather and foot, with different postures, so it is difficult to list them one by one. Just a few representative examples are given. It should be pointed out that in ancient times, birds and birds were the same word, which was similar in shape and sound (and tongue sound) and then split into two. Therefore, some words in bird cases are no different from "Wei"; Pictophonetic characters can be seen side by side from birds. Spring and Autumn Period began to break away from pictographs and develop towards strokes.

During the Warring States period, the glyph was quite chaotic, and the bird shape was cut into several parts, such as Khan bamboo slips and four rhymes, which were difficult to analyze. According to the pictographic principle, Shuowen draws a simple bird-shaped outline with round lines. The "bird" in official script is deformed greatly, and the tail feather and bird claw in seal script are mistakenly combined into "a", which leads to the disappearance of the image of feather and claw. Regular script is "bird" (traditional), which is a symbol and simplified as "bird". Simplify the pattern from cursive script and cursive script bird.