巣

巣 (Kangxi radical 47, 巛+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火田木 (FWD), four-corner 9090₄, composition ⿱𭕄果)

• 巢 (Kyūjitai form of 巣)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 531, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8696
• Dae Jaweon: page 919, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1221, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5DE3

Unorthodox variant of 巢 (cháo) found in a moveable type copy of Biographies of Exemplary Women 《列女傳》. First attested in 《宋元以來俗字譜》, a variant forms dictionary compiled in 1930 that records unorthodox forms (俗字 (súzì)) that have existed since the Song dynasty.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01147-001

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 巢)

1. nest

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぜう (zeu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: す (su, 巣, Jōyō)、すくう (sukuu, 巣くう)

巣 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so)

1. Alternative form of 巢 (“nest”)