鹕 (hú): (in 鹈鹕) pelican

Meanings

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.

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.

usage

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

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; phonetic

On the left, supplying the sound hú with an exact match. It is purely phonetic here; the same element gives 湖 (lake) and 蝴.

鹕 hú