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鹞

鷂
yào
noun #49,554

Meanings

  1. 1 sparrowhawk
  2. 2 harrier (a small hawk)

Examples

HSK 7-9
一只鹞在天空中盘旋，寻找小鸟。
Yì zhī yào zài tiānkōng zhōng pánxuán, xúnzhǎo xiǎoniǎo.
A sparrowhawk circled in the sky, looking for small birds.
HSK 7-9
纸鹞因为飞起来像鹞鹰而得名。
Zhǐ yào yīnwèi fēi qǐlái xiàng yào yīng ér démíng.
The paper kite is named after the sparrowhawk because it looks like one in flight.

Tips

culture
鹞 is a small hawk (鹞鹰 yàoyīng or 鹞子 yàozi). Because a flying hawk and a flying kite look alike, an old word for kite is 纸鹞 zhǐyào, literally 'paper sparrowhawk'.

Components

radical
鸟 niǎo
bird
The bird radical 鸟 on the right marks 鹞 as a kind of bird, the same radical found in 鸡 chicken and 鹰 eagle.
phonetic
䍃 yáo
an earthen pot (here phonetic)
The left side is the phonetic 䍃, the same sound element seen in 摇 to shake and 遥 distant. Here it supplies the sound that shifted slightly to yào.

Stroke Order

鹞 yào