鹮 (huán): ibis (bird family Threskiornith…

Measure Word

一只鹮 zhī

Meanings

1 ibis (bird family Threskiornithidae)

Characters

鹮

huán

ibis

Examples

朱鹮是中国特有的珍稀鸟类。

Zhū huán shì Zhōngguó tèyǒu de zhēnxī niǎolèi.

The crested ibis is a rare species native to China.

秦岭地区是朱鹮的栖息地。

Qín lǐng dìqū shì zhū huán de qīxīdì.

The Qinling Mountains are the habitat of the crested ibis.

Tips

culture

Almost always encountered in the compound 朱鹮 (zhūhuán, crested ibis) — a conservation icon in China. Down to seven birds in 1981 in Yangxian, Shaanxi; now recovered to thousands through captive breeding, widely cited as a Chinese conservation success story.

Components

radical

鸟 niǎo

bird

Right bird radical — the simplified form of 鳥, anchoring 鹮 in the avian family with 鹭 (egret), 鹤 (crane), 鹰 (eagle), 鹬 (snipe). It supplies the entire meaning: 鹮 is a long-billed wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.

phonetic

睘 huán

wide-eyed look; ring (here phonetic)

Left 睘 supplies the sound — huán matches the parent reading with no drift. 睘 depicts a wide-open eye above a ringed garment, the original form behind 环 (ring) and 还 (return). Same phonetic series gathers ring-and-circle meanings; here it names a bird with a distinctive curved (ring-like) bill — the ibis.