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天鹅

tiān é

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 天鵝

天鹅 (tiān é) means "swan". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 天鹅 means

1. swan

The characters in 天鹅

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 鹅égoose

Example sentences

• 这只天鹅是黑色的。
  Zhè zhǐ tiān'é shì hēisè de.
  This swan is black.
• 加布里埃尔看着一群天鹅在湖面上优雅地游着。
  Gabriel watched a family of swans gliding gracefully on the lake.

Words starting with 天鹅

• 天鹅绒tiān é róngvelvet; swan's down
• 天鹅湖Tiān é HúSwan Lake
• 天鹅座Tiān é zuòCygnus (constellation)

Words containing 天鹅

• 大天鹅dà tiān é(bird species of China) whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)
• 小天鹅xiǎo tiān é(bird species of China) tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus)
• 黑天鹅hēi tiān éblack swan
• 黑天鹅事件hēi tiān é shì jiànblack swan event
• 疣鼻天鹅yóu bí tiān é(bird species of China) mute swan (Cygnus olor)
• 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròulit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom); fig. to try to punch above one's weight

Sounds the same

Read tiān é, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 天峨see 天峨县

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