Hai Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Bird (niǎo)
Character: 鵧
Kangxi strokes: 19
Page 1491, Entry 36
Jade Chapters (Yupian) states: pronounced ding. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) states: pronounced jing, pronounced ping. A type of black bird. Commentary on the Er'ya: Explication of Birds states: a bird known as a jiju, also called a pijian.
Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun) states: pronounced zhi. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) states: pronounced zhi, pronounced pi. Pijian is a type of bird whose call sounds like it is calling its own name.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) also states: pronounced bing, pronounced pai, pronounced pi, pronounced bai, pronounced pa. The meaning is the same. The character is written with the component bing.
Textual research: Commentary on the Er'ya: Explication of Birds originally read pijiu. According to the original text, it has been corrected to pijian.