白缘

白緣
báiyuán
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 white margin / white edging (descriptive)
  2. 2 component of species names, e.g. 白缘䱗 (white-edged minnow), 白缘真鲨 (silvertip shark), 白缘鸺鹠 (owl sp.)

Examples

Zhè zhǒng yú de bèiqí yǒu yī tiáo báiyuán.
This fish has a white margin on its dorsal fin.
Báiyuán zhēnshā fēnbù zài rèdài hǎiyù.
The silvertip shark is distributed in tropical seas.

Tips

usage
Not a species on its own — 白缘 (white margin) is a descriptive element in many Chinese species names: 白缘䱗 báiyuán'ān (white-edged minnow), 白缘 (silvertip shark), 白缘鸺鹠 (an owl). Xinhua also records a rare sense 'a kind of fruit tree'. In the animal-list corpus, the species-name component is the most likely reading.

Stroke Order

bái
yuán