鸡 |
chicken, fowl
Left: Once again 又 (shows a hand), right: bird 鸟 (simplified from 鳥 with head 日, tail フ, and claws 灬) (The chicken is domesticated but other birds would fly away when touched.) You have your hand at this bird: the chicken. |
鸟 |
bird
Simplified from 鳥 (image of a bird with head 日, tail フ, and claws 灬) |
鸭 |
duck, male prostitute (slang)
Left: armor, shell 甲 (The seedling丨 cracks its shell/husk 田), right: bird 鸟/鳥 (= with head 日, tail フ, and claws 灬)) Hard as an armor is (the beak) of this bird: The duck. |
岛 |
island
Top: variation of bird 鸟 (=鳥 a bird with head 日, tail フ, and claws 灬), bottom: mountain 山 (cf. islet 屿) What (only) a bird can reach and where a mountain is: It's an island. |
屿 |
islet
Left: mountain 山, right: and/together 与 (arabic five 5 and one 一 is "and"-connection), here: Variation of island 岛 (= mountain 山, which only a bird 鸟/鳥 can reach) The mountain which only a simplified bird can reach, get is an islet. (In comparison to island 岛, the bird has only space at the side of the mountain.) |
鸦 |
crow, raven
Left: tusk 牙, right: bird 鸟/鳥 (bird with head 日, tail フ, and claws 灬) (It has a big beak.) A 'tusk' at this bird: The crow. |
鸣 |
twitter, to cry (of birds), resonance
Left: mouth 口, right: bird 鸟/鳥 (pictogram of a bird with claws 灬) The mouth of the bird is twittering. |
鸽 |
pigeon, dove
Left: to fit (here: to adapt) 合 (The lid  on a pot 口), right: bird 鸟/鳥 It can adapt: This bird is: the pigeon. |
捣 |
to smash, crush, destroy, attack, stir
Left: hand 扌, right: island 岛 (What (only) a bird 鸟/鳥 can reach, with a mountain 山 is an island.) If a hand hits on a bird in a mountain-like way, it will be smashed. |
乌 |
black, dark, crow, abbr. for Ukraine 乌克兰
Variation of bird 鸟/鳥 (without eye) At the bird 鸟 you can't see the eye 丶 because it is a dark. (or is it a crow?) |
鹅 |
goose
Left: I, me 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am myself), right: bird 鸟/鳥 [cf. chicken 鸡=you have your hand 又 on this bird 鸟] (You have them as domestic livestock) My bird is the: goose. |
鸿 |
eastern bean goose, great, letter/mail
Left: big river 江 (= The water 氵where it is built 工), right: bird 鸟/鳥 At the big river is this bird: the large bean goose. |
鹏 |
Péng, large fabulous bird, roc
Left: friends 朋 (The two bodies 月/肉 next to each other are friends.), right: bird 鸟 It can hunt two bodies (at the same time) This bird is the: Roc/Péng |
鹰 |
eagle, falcon, hawk
Left: building 广, right: person 亻, bird 隹, bird 鸟 Above the building and (big as) a person is the bird that kills other birds: the eagle. |
莺 |
oriole or warblers
Top: grass 艹, below: cover 冖 and bird 鸟/鳥 In the grass are covered these birds: the oriole or warbler. |
鹃 |
cuckoo
Left: small worm 肙 (The head 口 is as big as the body 月/肉), right: bird 鸟/鳥 (Cuckoo chicks grow very fast in foreign nests.) A head/beak 口 between bodies 月: This bird is a: cuckoo. |
焉 |
where, how
Top: correct 正, bottom: vari of bird 鳥 (without head) Is it correct, that the bird has no head: How? Where? |
坞 |
dock, entrenchment, bank, low wall
Left: earth 土, right: bird 乌 (variation of bird 鸟/烏) On the earth is a eye-less bird sitting on: the dock. |
呜 |
onomat. for humming or whimpering
Left: mouth 口, right: crow, rook 乌 (variation of bird 鸟 (=鳥) The mouth of the eye-less bird is humming and whimpering. |
鸥 |
common gull
Left: district, area 区 (here: recess 匚 in i.e. a cliff with a nest 㐅), right: bird 鸟/鳥 A recess with this bird: a gull. |
鸠 |
turtle-dove (= Turtur orientalis)
Left: nine 九 (here: image of a pigeon ナ with a head 乚 pecking at the ground), right: bird 鸟/鳥 The pigeon is pecking at the ground. This bird is the: turtle dove. |
鹦 |
parrot
Left: infant, baby 婴 (Sucking mouths 冂 at the nipples 人 of the woman 女 indicate infants/babies), right: bird 鸟 Like an infant (talks) this bird: the parrot. |
袅 |
delicate, graceful, curling
Top: vari. of bird 鸟/鳥 (= a bird with head, wings, and claws), bottom: cloths 衤 (With feather ornaments) If you use birds for clothing, you look: delicate and graceful. |
嫣 |
beautiful, sweet, captivating, engaging
Left: woman 女, right: where, how 焉 (Is it correct 正, that the bird 鳥 has no head: How? Where?) The woman does it correctly when being like a bird: captivatingly beautiful. |
鹊 |
magpie
left: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times), right: bird 鸟/鳥 (Magpies have a good memory) A sense for 'former times' has this bird: the magpie. |
鹤 |
crane
Left: 隺 (a hooded 冖 bird 隹), right: bird 鸟/鳥 A hooded bird, this bird is the: crane. |
鹉 |
parrot
Left: military, martial 武 (correct 正 sabre 弋 for the military), right: bird 鸟/鳥 The martial bird is: the parrot. |
鸳 |
mandarin duck, happy couple
Top: 夗 (evening 夕, slumped person 㔾), bottom: bird 鸟/鳥 (lifelong fidelity) They stay together until the (life) evening and being slumped. This bird is: the mandarin duck. |
枭 |
owl, brave, smuggler, drug pusher
Top: bird 鸟/鳥, bottom: tree 木 The bird in the tree is: the owl. |
鸾 |
mythical bird related to phoenix
Top: also, namely 亦 (To see this variation 亦 as red 赤, you can also do.) [red 赤: When earth (clay) 土 is burned 灬, the pottery becomes red 赤], below: bird 鸟/鳥 The somehow red bird is: that mythical bird. |
鹳 |
crane, stork
Left: stork 雚 (Between plants 艹 in two ponds ロロ is this bird 隹: The stork), right: bird 鸟 Like a stork is this bird: The stork or crane. |
鸯 |
mandarin duck
Top: center 央 (The yoke 冂 on the shoulders of the big 大 man is centered), bottom: bird 鸟 The colored texture appears like a yoke on the shoulders of this bird: the mandarin duck. |