The Chinese Radical: 鳥




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Meaning
bird    鳥

Explanation Also this 隹 is seen as a bird.

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
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.  
HSK 3
bird
niǎo

Simplified from 鳥 which is the image of a bird with head 日, tail フ, and claws 灬  
HSK 4
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.  
HSK 5
island
dǎo
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
HSK 5
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.)  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
twitter, to cry (of birds), resonance
míng
Left: mouth 口, right: bird 鸟/鳥 (pictogram of a bird with claws 灬)
The mouth of the bird is twittering.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
to smash, crush, destroy, attack, stir
dǎo
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.  
HSK 6
black, dark, crow, abbr. for Ukraine 乌克兰

丿
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?)  
no HSK
goose
é
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
no HSK
eastern bean goose, great, letter/mail
hóng
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.  
no HSK
Péng, large fabulous bird, roc
péng
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  
no HSK
eagle, falcon, hawk
yīng
广
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.  
no HSK
oriole or warblers
yīng
Top: grass 艹, below: cover 冖 and bird 鸟/鳥
In the grass are covered these birds: the oriole or warbler.  
no HSK
cuckoo
juān
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.  
no HSK
where, how
yān
Top: correct 正, bottom: variation of bird 鳥 (without head)
Is it correct, that the bird has no head: How? Where?  
no HSK
dock, entrenchment, bank, low wall

Left: earth 土, right: bird 乌 (variation of bird 鸟/烏)
(Because this bird can no longer hunt, it hopes for some fish from the fishermen:) On the earth is the eye-less bird sitting on: the dock.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
common gull
ōu
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.  
no HSK
turtle-dove (= Turtur Orientalis)
jiū
Left: nine 九 (here: image of a pigeon ナ with a head 乚 pecking at the ground.), right: bird 鸟/鳥
It is pecking at the ground. This bird is the: turtle-dove. (pigeon)  
no HSK
parrot
yīng
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.  
no HSK
delicate, graceful, curling
niǎo
Top: variation of bird 鸟/鳥 (= a bird with head, wings, and claws), bottom: clothes 衤
(With feather ornaments?) If you use birds for clothes/dressing, you look: delicate and graceful.  
no HSK
beautiful, sweet, captivating, engaging
yān
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.  
no HSK
magpie
què
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.  
no HSK
crane

Left: 隺 (a hooded 冖 bird 隹), right: bird 鸟/鳥
A hooded bird, this bird is the: crane.  
no HSK
parrot

Left: military, martial 武 (correct 正 saber 弋 for the military.), right: bird 鸟/鳥
The martial bird is: the parrot.  
no HSK
mandarin duck, happy couple
yuān
Top: 夗 (evening 夕, slumped person 㔾), bottom: bird 鸟/鳥
(lifelong fidelity) They stay together until the (life's) evening when being slumped. This bird is: the mandarin duck.  
no HSK
owl, brave, smuggler, drug pusher
xiāo
Top: bird 鸟/鳥, bottom: tree 木
The bird in the tree is: the owl.  
no HSK
mythical bird related to phoenix
luán
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.  
no HSK
crane, stork
guàn
Left: heron, stork 雚 (Between plants 艹 in two ponds ロロ is a bird 隹, the heron), right: bird 鸟
Like a heron is this bird: The stork or crane.  
no HSK
mandarin duck
yāng
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.  

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