wēng
noun

Measure Word

zhī

Meanings

  1. 1 flycatcher (bird)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Wēng chángcháng tíng zài shùzhī shàng, yì yǒu fēichóng jīngguò jiù pū chūqù bǔzhuō.
Flycatchers often perch on a branch and dart out to catch passing flying insects.
HSK 7-9
Běi huī wēng shì Zhōngguó chángjiàn de wēngkē xiǎoniǎo.
The Asian brown flycatcher is a common small flycatcher in China.

Tips

usage
Character used almost exclusively in compound bird names: 鹟科 (Muscicapidae family), 寿带鸟 (paradise flycatcher), 北灰鹟 (Asian brown flycatcher). Small passerines that hawk flying insects from an exposed perch.

Components

radical
niǎo
bird
Right bird radical, simplified form of - the indexing element. Marks as a species name: the Old World flycatcher family (鹟科), small insect-snapping perching birds. Same family as , , , - every bird species coinage uses this right-side radical.
phonetic
wēng
old man; bird's neck feathers
Left supplies the sound directly: wēng to wēng. Strong semantic flavour - pictured 'feathers around an old man's neck,' and the flycatcher is named for its prominent ruff of throat feathers. The phonetic doubles as image: a feathered-collar bird. Same phonetic in , .

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Stroke Order

wēng