鹈鹕

鵜鶘
tíhú
noun #27,668

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 pelican

Examples

Tíhú yòng zuǐ xià de dà píngāng lái chǔcún yú.
Pelicans use the large pouch under their beak to store fish.
Wǒmen zài hǎibiān kàndào le yī qún tíhú zài mìshí.
We saw a flock of pelicans foraging by the sea.

Tips

memory
鹈鹕 is one of those rare two-character bird names where both characters are fairly obscure. Both and contain the bird radical /. If you see two characters with radicals together, it's almost certainly a specific bird species.

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