鲸
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whale
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 魚 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鯨
- Common rank
- #2,212
- Unicode
- U+9CB8
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 鲸
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一角鲸 | narwhal (Monodon monoceros) | |
| 座头鲸 | humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) | |
| 杀人鲸 | orca; killer whale (Orcinus orca) | |
| 鲸鱼座 | Cetus (constellation) | |
| 独角鲸 | narwhal (Monodon monoceros) | |
| 白鲸 | Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville 赫曼·麥爾維爾|赫曼·麦尔维尔[He4 man4 Mai4 er3 wei2 er3] | |
| 白鲸 | beluga whale | |
| 鲸鱼 | whale; CL:條|条[tiao2] | |
| 鲸波 | huge wave or breaker | |
| 鲸目 | Cetacea (whale family) | |
| 鲸落 | whale fall | |
| 虎鲸 | orca; killer whale (Orcinus orca) | |
| 抹香鲸 | sperm whale; cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) | |
| 蓝鲸 | blue whale | |
| 捕鲸船 | whaler; whaling vessel | |
| 蚕食鲸吞 | (lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom); (fig.) to seize (territo… | |
| 齿鲸 | toothed whales; Odontoceti | |
| 驼背鲸 | humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) | |
| 鲸头鹳 | shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex) | |
| 须鲸 | baleen whale; Mysticeti |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 京 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 京 sound part | capital city | |
| 惊 | to frighten, to startle; surprise, alarm | |
| 就 | just, simply; to go to; to approach, near | |
| 凉 | cool, cold; disheartened | |
| 琼 | jade; rare, precious; elegant | |
| 掠 | to pillage, to ransack | |
| 椋 | fruit | |
| 谅 | to excuse, to forgive; to guess, to presume | |
| 晾 | to air-dry; to sun-dry | |
| 黥 | to tattoo; to brand the face of criminals | |
| 辌 | carriage, hearse |