Chinese symbol for “peck”
啄
zhuó
to peck
The closest CC-CEDICT match for peck is 啄 (zhuó), defined as: to peck.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “peck”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斗 | dǒu | dry measure for grain equal to ten 升 (shēng) or one-tenth of a 石 (dàn); decaliter |
| 鹐 (鵮) | qiān | (of a bird) to peck; (fig.) to ridicule (sb) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 啄.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 啄木鸟 (啄木鳥) | zhuó mù niǎo | woodpecker |
| 啄食 | zhuó shí | (of a bird) to peck at food |
| 剥啄 (剝啄) | bō zhuó | (onom.) tap (on a door or window) |
| 啄羊鹦鹉 (啄羊鸚鵡) | zhuó yáng yīng wǔ | kea (Nestor notabilis) |
| 啄花鸟 (啄花鳥) | zhuó huā niǎo | flowerpecker (any bird of the family Dicaeidae) |
| 栗啄木鸟 (栗啄木鳥) | lì zhuó mù niǎo | (bird species of China) rufous woodpecker (Micropternus brachyurus) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “peck”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.