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鹕

鶘
hú
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 鹈鹕) pelican

Examples

HSK 7-9
鹈鹕喜欢在黄昏时聚集在湖边。
Tíhú xǐhuan zài huánghūn shí jùjí zài húbiān.
Pelicans like to gather by the lake at dusk.
HSK 7-9
我们在湿地保护区看到了几只鹈鹕。
Wǒmen zài shīdì bǎohùqū kàndào le jǐ zhī tíhú.
We saw several pelicans at the wetland reserve.

Tips

usage
Bound; it appears only in 鹈鹕 ('pelican'). It never stands alone in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
鸟 niǎo
bird (radical form)
Bird, the radical on the right, marking this as a bird and pairing it with its partner 鹈.
phonetic
胡 hú
reckless
On the left, supplying the sound hú with an exact match. It is purely phonetic here; the same element gives 湖 (lake) and 蝴.

Stroke Order

鹕 hú