鹈鹕

鵜鶘
tíhú
noun #27,668

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Meanings

  1. 1 pelican

Examples

HSK 7-9
Tíhú yòng zuǐ xià de dà pínáng lái chǔcún yú.
Pelicans use the large pouch under their beak to store fish.
HSK 7-9
Wǒmen zài hǎibiān kàndào le yī qún tíhú zài mìshí.
We saw a flock of pelicans foraging by the sea.

Tips

memory
鹈鹕 is one of those rare two-character bird names where both characters are fairly obscure. Both and contain the bird radical . If you see two characters with bird radicals together, it's almost certainly a specific bird species.

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