Supercritical and subcritical Hopf bifurcation

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While studying the bifurcations for two dimensional dynamic systems, I came across the subcritical and supercritical Hopf bifurcation. I know that the subcriticâl involves a limit cycle around a stable equilibrium and the supercritical one around an unstable equilibrium. But is there an easier way to recognize which one of the two Hopf bifurcations there is? E.g. by looking at the eigenvalues?