鹉

鵡

wǔ

noun

Meanings

HSK 4

不要鹦鹉学舌，要有自己的想法。

Búyào yīngwǔ-xuéshé, yào yǒu zìjǐ de xiǎngfǎ.

Don't just parrot what others say without thinking.

HSK 7-9

这只鹦鹉会模仿人说话。

Zhè zhī yīngwǔ huì mófǎng rén shuōhuà.

This parrot can imitate human speech.

usage

鹉 only appears in 鹦鹉 (parrot) and the idiom 鹦鹉学舌 (to parrot, to repeat mindlessly). It has no standalone meaning.

radical

鸟 niǎo

bird

The bird radical 鸟 on the right marks this clearly as the name of a bird, the parrot.

phonetic

武 wǔ

military; martial

On the left 武 supplies the sound exactly, with no shift. It carries no meaning in this bird name.

鹉 wǔ