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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *關* | 關* | *關
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鳥* | 鳥* | *鳥
bird / CL: 隻|只, / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *隻* | 隻* | *隻
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鵰* | 鵰* | *鵰
bird of prey
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *距* | 距* | *距
to be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from / (bound form) distance / spur (on the leg of certain birds: gamecock, pheasant etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雕* | 雕* | *雕
to carve / to engrave / shrewd / bird of prey
HSK 7-9
bird's nest / nickname for Beijing 2008 Olympic stadium
HSK 7-9
pigeon / dove / various birds of the family Columbidae
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
(bird species of China) rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)
(bird species of China) marsh tit (Poecile palustris)
(bird species of China) white-throated bulbul (Alophoixus flaveolus)
(bird species of China) little curlew (Numenius minutus)
(bird species of China) orange-headed thrush (Geokichla citrina)
(bird species of China) yellow-rumped honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus)
(bird species of China) bimaculated lark (Melanocorypha bimaculata)
(bird species of China) puff-throated babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鶚* | 鶚* | *鶚
(bird species of China) osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
(bird species of China) short-tailed parrotbill (Suthora davidiana)
(bird species of China) greater necklaced laughingthrush (Pterorhinus pectoralis)
(bird species of China) grey laughingthrush (Garrulax maesi)
(bird species of China) black-headed bulbul (Brachypodius melanocephalos)
(bird species of China) Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
(onom.) clamorous noise made by numerous people talking or singing, or by musical instruments, or birds twittering
(bird species of China) Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翁* | 翁* | *翁
elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old)
(bird species of China) pine bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos)
(bird species of China) Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo)
newly hatched bird / fig. inexperienced person / fig. chick (slighting term for young woman) / bimbo
bird's nest fern (Asplenium nidus)
(bird species of China) light-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis)
(bird species of China) black-throated bushtit (Aegithalos concinnus)
(bird species of China) Eurasian goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
(bird species of China) slaty-blue flycatcher (Ficedula tricolor)
(bird species of China) Saunders's gull (Saundersilarus saundersi)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翅* | 翅* | *翅
(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
(bird species of China) Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis)
(bird species of China) brown noddy (Anous stolidus)
(bird species of China) green-crowned warbler (Phylloscopus burkii)
(bird species of China) white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
(bird species of China) rufous-winged buzzard (Butastur liventer)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鳴* | 鳴* | *鳴
to cry (of birds, animals and insects) / to make a sound / to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
(bird species of China) white-spectacled warbler (Phylloscopus intermedius)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鶯* | 鶯* | *鶯
oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers
(bird species of China) common swift (Apus apus)
(ancient Chinese astronomy) Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird (the southern quadrant of the sky) / (Daoism) the guardian deity of the south
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雀* | 雀* | *雀
(bound form) small bird / sparrow / also pr. [qiao3]
net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella
(bird species of China) green-winged teal (Anas carolinensis)
legendary giant bird
(bird species of China) rufous-capped babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps)
(coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey
(bird species of China) black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爪* | 爪* | *爪
foot of a bird or animal / paw / claws / talons
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爪* | 爪* | *爪
(coll.) foot of an animal or bird / (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc
(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple
birds
lark (bird of family Alaudidae)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咕* | 咕* | *咕
(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
(bird species of China) red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
(bird species of China) buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棲* | 棲* | *棲
to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *頡* | 頡* | *頡
(of a bird) to fly upwards / (of the neck) stiff
(bird species of China) clamorous reed warbler (Acrocephalus stentoreus)
to apply makeup to the eyebrows / (bird species of China) Chinese hwamei (Garrulax canorus)
to lay (a foundation) / to conquer (a city etc) / to shoot down (a bird etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *哢* | 哢* | *哢
to sing or chirp (of birds) / music sound
(onom.) twittering of birds / whispering / murmuring
birds and animals / creature / beast (brutal person)
(bird species of China) slender-billed oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鸞* | 鸞* | *鸞
mythical bird related to phoenix
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嚶* | 嚶* | *嚶
calling of birds
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *啼* | 啼* | *啼
(bound form) to cry; to weep loudly / (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech
(bird species of China) Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)
(bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
(bird species of China) black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
(bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牡* | 牡* | *牡
(of a bird, animal or plant) male / key / hills
to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
bird
(of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net / (of a tennis ball) to hit the net / (of a criminal) to be captured
bird shotgun replaced by cannon (idiom); equipment improved enormously
Gigantoraptor erlianensis (a giant bird-like dinosaur found in Erlian in Inner Mongolia)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *唂* | 唂* | *唂
(onom.) bird call
one move, two gains (idiom); two birds with one stone
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嘯* | 嘯* | *嘯
(of people) to whistle / (of birds and animals) to screech; to howl; to roar
to get a bird's-eye view / bird's-eye view / broad overview
to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嗉* | 嗉* | *嗉
the crop of a bird
bird's nest
to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed
(bird species of China) peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磔* | 磔* | *磔
old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of ), now called / sound made by birds (onom.) / (literary) to dismember (form of punishment) / to spread
open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly / to give one's opponent a way out / lenient treatment
birds and beasts / fauna
(bird species of China) long-billed wren-babbler (Napothera malacoptila)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *喿* | 喿* | *喿
chirping of birds
(bird species of China) long-billed bush warbler (Locustella major)
small bird / young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick) / (fig.) penis (kiddie term) / (golf) birdie
(bird species of China) pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)

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