Memory phrase for the character: 鹃

鹃

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Meaning

cuckoo

Pronunciation

juān

Explanation

 Left: small worm 肙 (The head 口 is as big as the body 月/肉), right: bird 鸟/鳥

Mnemonic
 
(Cuckoo chicks grow very fast in foreign nests.) A head/beak 口 between bodies 月: This bird is a: cuckoo.

Radicals

肙 small wormAs big as its head 口 is the body 月/肉 of this worm.
鳥 birdAlso this 隹 is seen as a bird.




 Vocabulary

谏言 jiàn yán  
杜鹃啼血 dù juān tí xuè  the cuckoo cries blood; fig. plaintive lament
鹃形目 juān xíng mù  Cuculiformes, order of birds including cuckoo
茹志鹃 Rú Zhì juān  Ru Zhijuan (1925-1998), female novelist and politician
茹志鹃 Rú Zhì juān  

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