è
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the osprey; fish hawk

Characters

Examples

Yì zhī è tūrán shōu chì fǔchōng xiàlái zhuā yú.
An osprey suddenly folded its wings and plunged down to seize a fish.

Tips

history
'osprey' rarely stands alone today; the common name is (fish hawk). It once symbolised a talented person, as in the classical (standing erect like an osprey). The phonetic is .
register
Literary and technical only, found in old texts and ornithology, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
niǎo
bird
is the bird radical on the right, marking the meaning: is a large fish-hunting raptor.
phonetic
è
to beat a drum and shout
supplies the sound è. The same phonetic appears in (crocodile) and (jaw).

Stroke Order

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