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鹂

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Chinese oriole

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Strokes
12
Radical
鳥 +7
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
鸝
Common rank
#3,410
Unicode
U+9E42

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Formation & memory

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How 鹂 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

鸟 meaning “bird” + 丽 sound ( lì )

Components 丽 鸟

Words with 鹂

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
印度金黄鹂 Yìn dù jīn huáng lí (bird species of China) Indian golden oriole (Oriolus kundoo)
黑头黄鹂 hēi tóu huáng lí (bird species of China) black-hooded oriole (Oriolus xanthornus)
细嘴黄鹂 xì zuǐ huáng lí (bird species of China) slender-billed oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris)
金黄鹂 jīn huáng lí (bird species of China) Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus)
黑枕黄鹂 hēi zhěn huáng lí (bird species of China) black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
黄鹂 huáng lí yellow oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
鹊色鹂 què sè lí (bird species of China) silver oriole (Oriolus mellianus)
朱鹂 zhū lí (bird species of China) maroon oriole (Oriolus traillii)

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 丽 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
丽 sound part lì beautiful, elegant, magnificent
骊 lí a pure-black horse; a pair of horses
俪 lì spouse; pair, couple
鲡 lí eel
逦 lǐ winding, meandering
郦 lì a place in Henan province
酾 shī to filter, to strain