鹮 (huán) · ibis (bird family Threskiornithidae)

Measure Word

一只鹮 zhī

Meanings

1 ibis (bird family Threskiornithidae)

Characters

鹮

huán

ibis

Examples

HSK 7-9

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.

HSK 7-9

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 (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.