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鹃

juān

Character Traditional 鵑

What 鹃 means

1. cuckoo

Example sentences

• 杜鹃花很漂亮。
  Azaleas are beautiful.
• 植物园内种植了 450 多株杜鹃花，还有枫树、美国榆树和铁杉等树木，用于景观美化。
  The arboretum includes more than 450 azaleas for landscaping, but also trees like maples, American elms, and hemlocks.

Words starting with 鹃

• 鹃形目juān xíng mùCuculiformes, order of birds including cuckoo

Words containing 鹃

• 杜鹃dù juāncuckoo (Cercococcyx spp., also written 杜鹃鸟); Indian azalea…
• 杜鹃花dù juān huāIndian Azalea (Rhododendron simsii Planch)
• 噪鹃zào juān(bird species of China) Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)
• 乌鹃wū juān(bird species of China) square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris)
• 鹰鹃yīng juān(bird species of China) large hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx sparverioides)
• 北鹰鹃běi yīng juān(bird species of China) rufous hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx hyperythrus)
• 周瘦鹃Zhōu Shòu juānZhou Shoujuan (1895-1968), writer, translator and art collector in Suzhou, a victim of…
• 大杜鹃dà dù juān(bird species of China) common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
• 小杜鹃xiǎo dù juān(bird species of China) lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
• 小鸦鹃xiǎo yā juān(bird species of China) lesser coucal (Centropus bengalensis)
• 小鹃鸠xiǎo juān jiū(bird species of China) little cuckoo-dove (Macropygia ruficeps)
• 杜鹃座Dù juān zuòTucana (constellation)
• 杜鹃科dù juān kēCuculidae, bird family including cuckoo 杜鹃鸟
• 杜鹃鸟dù juān niǎocuckoo (Cercococcyx spp.)
• 紫金鹃zǐ jīn juān(bird species of China) violet cuckoo (Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus)
• 翠金鹃cuì jīn juān(bird species of China) Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus)
• 茹志鹃Rú Zhì juānRu Zhijuan (1925-1998), female novelist and politician
• 斑尾鹃鸠bān wěi juān jiū(bird species of China) barred cuckoo-dove (Macropygia unchall)
• 普通鹰鹃pǔ tōng yīng juān(bird species of China) common hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius)
• 杜鹃啼血dù juān tí xuèlit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood (idiom)…
• 杜鹃花科dù juān huā kēEricaceae (botany), genus containing rhododendron and azalea
• 栗斑杜鹃lì bān dù juān(bird species of China) banded bay cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii)
• 棕腹杜鹃zōng fù dù juān(bird species of China) Malaysian hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx fugax)
• 橙胸咬鹃chéng xiōng yǎo juān(bird species of China) orange-breasted trogon (Harpactes oreskios)

Characters built on 肙

These share the phonetic component 肙 (yuān), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 捐juānto relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy
• 娟juānbeautiful; graceful
• 绢juànthin, tough silk fabric
• 涓juānbrook; to select
• 狷juànimpetuous; rash; upright (character)
• 蜎yuānlarva of mosquito

Characters that look like 鹃

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 辅fǔto assist; to complement; auxiliary
• 猖chāngferocious
• 鹑chún(bound form) quail
• 鹌ānused in 鹌鹑
• 鹈tíused in 鹈鹕
• 鹊quèmagpie

Sounds the same

Read juān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 捐to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy
• 涓brook; to select
• 娟beautiful; graceful
• 镌to engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe
• 圈to confine; to lock up; to pen in
• 蠲(literary) to remit; to exempt; (literary) millipede; (literary) to manifest
• 焆(literary) bright
• 朘(literary) to reduce; (literary) to exploit
• 悁angry; sad
• 脧variant of 朘
• 鎸variant of 镌, to engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe