鶴

The elegant long-legged bird often associated with longevity and nobility in East Asian culture.

It is generally considered a phono-semantic compound:

隺 (각, “lofty, noble”) - provides the sound;

鳥 (조, “bird”) - provides the meaning.

Some scholars also view it as an ideogrammic compound, interpreting it as a pictorial combination expressing the concept of a particular type of bird – the crane.