鹚 (cí): (in 鸬鹚) cormorant

Meanings

鸬鹚的嘴带钩，很适合捕鱼。

Lúcí de zuǐ dài gōu, hěn shìhé bǔyú.

The cormorant has a hooked beak ideal for catching fish.

鸬鹚捕鱼是漓江上古老的技艺。

Lúcí bǔyú shì Líjiāng shàng gǔlǎo de jìyì.

Cormorant fishing is an old craft on the Li River.

usage

Bound form — 鹚 appears only as the second syllable of 鸬鹚 (cormorant). A variant graph 鷀 writes the same word.

radical

鸟 niǎo

bird

Bottom is the bird radical 鸟, placing the character among bird names; together with 鸬 it spells the cormorant.

phonetic

兹 zī

this; now

Top element 兹 is the sound part; the reading has drifted from zī to cí, a common phonetic drift in the same series.

鹚 cí