漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
鳥: bird, chicken
JLPT N411 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
11 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
チョウchou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 鳥類ちょうるいbirds, avian
- 野鳥やちょうwild bird
- 白鳥はくちょうswan
- 益鳥えきちょうbeneficial bird
- 一石二鳥いっせきにちょうkilling two birds with one stone
- 七面鳥しちめんちょうturkey
とりtori · kun'yomi · on its own
- 鳥とりbird, fowl, poultry
- 鳥居とりいtorii, gateway to a Shinto shrine
- 鳥肉とりにくchicken meat
- 渡り鳥わたりどりmigratory bird, bird of passage
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A bird with a dangling tail.
Source: Wiktionary, 鳥 (rev. 93750960), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the bird perched on a branch, ready to take flight! The top horizontal line is the head, the box with a dot is the sharp eye, and the strokes below show the beautiful feathers of the wings and tail.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 鸟 · traditional, as in Japanese · niǎo
Japan keeps the traditional form 鳥; mainland China simplifies it to 鸟.
- Simplified
- 鸟 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 鳥 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin niǎo most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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