鹟 (wēng): flycatcher (bird)

Measure Word

一只鹟 zhī

Meanings

1 flycatcher (bird)

Characters

鹟

wēng

flycatcher

Examples

鹟常常停在树枝上，一有飞虫经过就扑出去捕捉。

Wēng chángcháng tíng zài shùzhī shàng, yì yǒu fēichóng jīngguò jiù pū chūqù bǔzhuō.

Flycatchers often perch on a branch and dart out to catch passing flying insects.

北灰鹟是中国常见的鹟科小鸟。

Běi huī wēng shì Zhōngguó chángjiàn de wēngkē xiǎoniǎo.

The Asian brown flycatcher is a common small flycatcher in China.

Tips

usage

Character used almost exclusively in compound bird names: 鹟科 (Muscicapidae family), 寿带鸟 (paradise flycatcher), 北灰鹟 (Asian brown flycatcher). Small passerines that hawk flying insects from an exposed perch.

Components

radical

鸟 niǎo

bird

Right bird radical, simplified form of 鳥 — the indexing element. Marks 鹟 as a species name: the Old World flycatcher family (鶲科), small insect-snapping perching birds. Same family as 鸡, 鸭, 鹅, 鹰 — every bird species coinage uses this right-side radical.

phonetic

翁 wēng

old man; bird's neck feathers (here phonetic)

Left 翁 supplies the sound directly: wēng → wēng. Strong semantic flavour — 翁 pictured 'feathers around an old man's neck,' and the flycatcher is named for its prominent ruff of throat feathers. The phonetic doubles as image: a feathered-collar bird. Same phonetic in 嗡, 滃.

No stroke data for 鹟; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.