普通鵟

pǔtōngkuáng
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 eastern buzzard (Buteo japonicus)
  2. 2 a medium-sized hawk of East Asia, long treated as a race of the common buzzard (Buteo buteo)

Examples

Pǔtōngkuáng shì Zhōngguó zuì chángjiàn de kuáng lèi měngqín.
The eastern buzzard is the commonest Buteo hawk in China.
Wǒmen zài Běijīng de qiūqiān jì kàndào shù shí zhī pǔtōngkuáng.
We saw dozens of eastern buzzards during the autumn migration in Beijing.

Tips

usage
The Chinese name 普通 ('common, ordinary') matches the European label 'common buzzard,' but taxonomists now split the East Asian population as its own species Buteo japonicus. The character (kuáng) has the bird radical plus phonetic .

Stroke Order

tōng
kuáng