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Kanji Detail for 鳥 - "bird, fowl"

鳥

  • Meaning

    鳥 means "bird, fowl."

    1. Bird - A feathered, winged animal.

    2. Fowl - Birds collectively; poultry.

  • Words using 鳥

    • 野鳥 やちょう Listen wild bird
    • 白鳥 はくちょう Listen swan (Cygnus spp.); white bird
    • 鳥類 ちょうるい Listen birds
    • 渡り鳥 わたりどり Listen migratory bird; bird of passage
    • 小鳥 ことり Listen small bird; little bird
    • 水鳥 みずとり Listen waterfowl; water bird; shorebird
    • 鳥獣 ちょうじゅう Listen birds and wild animals; wildlife
    • 鳥居 とりい Listen torii (Shinto shrine archway)

  • Four-character idioms with 鳥

    • 一石二鳥 いっせきにちょう Listen killing two birds with one stone
    • 花鳥風月 かちょうふうげつ Listen beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics; artistic pursuits involving nature themes
    • 籠鳥恋雲 ろうちょうれんうん Listen longing for freedom when tied down
    • 籠鳥檻猿 ろうちょうかんえん Listen denied freedom (of how to live one's life)
    • 花鳥諷詠 かちょうふうえい Listen the beauties of nature and the harmony that exists between it and man (as the key poetic theme of a haiku)
    • 落花啼鳥 らっかていちょう Listen the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping)

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    • Verified meaning: bird, fowl
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いがやま, いかりやま, とり, とりさき)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 鳥

    Given names 鳥(とり)Listen

    Surnames 鳥(いがやま)Listen 鳥(いかりやま)Listen 鳥(とりさき)Listen 鳥(やなどり)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    bird; chicken

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    bird; Kangxi radical 196

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 屌[diao3]; penis

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    bird

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Birds with long tails. By convention, it has become the general term for feathered creatures. Whether long-tailed or short-tailed, all are called 鳥.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    choh(チョウ) チョウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tori(とり) とり

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    鳥 (tori・torihen)

  • Related Keywords

    bird fowl avian feather flight flock fly nest plumage wing

Sentences including 鳥

  • I wish i were a bird.

  • Birds make their nests in trees.

  • Many kinds of birds live in japan.

  • What's that bird?

  • I wish i were a bird.

  • There are many such birds in the park.

  • Birds sing early in the morning.

  • I wish i were a bird.

  • I wish i were a bird.

  • I saw a beautiful bird.

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