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Chinese symbol for “twitter”

啁啾
zhōu jiū
(bird) twitter; chirp

The closest CC-CEDICT match for twitter is 啁啾 (zhōu jiū), defined as: (bird) twitter; chirp.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

啁 zhōu
to chirp, to twitter
radical 30 ⼝ · 11 strokes
啾 jiū
the wailing of a child
radical 30 ⼝ · 12 strokes

Other Chinese words for “twitter”

WordPinyinMeaning
叽叽喳喳 (嘰嘰喳喳)jī jī zhā zhā(onom.) chirp; twitter
啭 (囀)zhuànto sing (of birds or insects); to warble

Related words

Other words that share a character with 啁啾.

WordPinyinMeaning
啁哳zhāo zhā(literary) (onom.) combined twittering and chirping of many birds
哈啾hā jiū(onom.) a-choo (sound of a sneeze) (Tw)
唧啾jī jiū(onom.) babble; twittering of birds

See also: Japanese symbol for “twitter”.

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.