chick, squab, duckling, doll
雛 centers on a young bird: a chick, squab, or duckling. The doll sense is a figurative extension, likening a small, delicate doll to a baby bird.
雛 combines 芻 (grass, fodder) and 隹 (bird), suggesting a young bird being fed or associated with grass. The exact historical development is uncertain, but the components point to the idea of a small bird.
The left side 芻 looks like bundled grass or fodder, and the right side 隹 is a bird. Picture a tiny chick pecking at grass: a young bird, small and delicate like a doll.
For スウ, imagine a chick making a soft 'sue' sound as it peeps for food: sue -> スウ, and the little bird chirps for its meal.
young bird; chick; fledgling
young bird; chick; fledgling
hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
model; miniature; pattern
display of dolls during Hinamatsuri
daisy (Bellis perennis); English daisy
chick; baby bird
gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel
festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
Empress doll (in display with Emperor doll)
nestling
kimekomi doll
Asian particolored bat (Vespertilio sinensis)
paper dolls floated downriver on March 3
Emperor hina doll
brooding
breeder
gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel
sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival
Burmannia championii (species of flowering plant)