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鹞

鷂
yào
noun #49,554

Meanings

  1. 1 sparrowhawk
  2. 2 harrier (a small hawk)

Examples

一只鹞在天空中盘旋，寻找小鸟。
Yī zhī yào zài tiānkōng zhōng pánxuán, xúnzhǎo xiǎoniǎo.
A sparrowhawk circled in the sky, looking for small birds.
纸鹞因为飞起来像鹞鹰而得名。
Zhǐ yào yīnwèi fēi qǐlái xiàng yào yīng ér démíng.
The paper kite is named after the sparrowhawk because it looks like one in flight.

Tips

culture
鹞 is a small hawk (鹞鹰 yàoyīng or 鹞子 yàozi). Because a flying hawk and a flying kite look alike, an old word for kite is 纸鹞 zhǐyào, literally 'paper sparrowhawk'.

Components

radical
鸟 niǎo
bird
The bird radical 鸟 on the right marks 鹞 as a kind of bird, the same radical found in 鸡 chicken and 鹰 eagle.
phonetic
䍃 yáo
an earthen pot (here phonetic)
The left side is the phonetic 䍃, the same sound element seen in 摇 to shake and 遥 distant. Here it supplies the sound that shifted slightly to yào.

Stroke Order

鹞 yào