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鹦 meaning and stroke order

yīng

Parrot

16 strokesRadical 鸟Traditional 鸚
Strokes16
Pinyinyīng
ToneTone 1
Frequency#3,390
Printable worksheet

How to write 鹦, stroke by stroke

16 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.

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Meaning of 鹦

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.

yīngfirst tone (high and level)
  1. (bound form) parrot

How 鹦 is built

Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Bird.

yīngbaby+niǎobird

鸟 gives the meaning and 婴 hints at the sound.

Radical: 鸟 (bird), shared by 72 characters on this site.

How to remember 鹦

鹦 is a pictophonetic character: 鸟 (niǎo, bird) on the right gives the meaning, and 婴 (yīng) on the left gives the sound. Picture a bird that talks like a baby 婴儿 (yīng'ér), copying every word it hears, just as a parrot does.

鹦 is a bound form. It almost never appears alone and shows up mainly in 鹦鹉 (yīngwǔ), the normal word for parrot. Example: 我家有一只鹦鹉。(Wǒ jiā yǒu yì zhī yīngwǔ.) My family has a parrot.

Common mistake: Learners sometimes write 婴 alone and forget the 鸟 on the right, or mix up 鹦 with 鹰 (yīng, eagle), which sounds the same but is a different bird. Also note that 鹉 in 鹦鹉 is third tone, wǔ, not fourth tone.

Common words with 鹦

Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.

WordPinyinMeaningLevel
鹦鹉yīngwǔparrot

鹦 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

鹦yīng鹉wǔ懂dǒng得de模mó仿fǎng人rén类lèi说shuō话huà。
Parrots imitate human speech.
她tā养yǎng一yī只zhī鹦yīng鹉wǔ作zuò为wéi宠chǒng物wù。
She keeps a parrot as a pet.
鹦yīng鹉wǔ会huì模mó仿fǎng人rén的de声shēng音yīn。
A parrot can imitate human speech.
你nǐ们men喂wèi鹦yīng鹉wǔ了le吗ma？
Did you feed the parrots?
那nà只zhǐ鹦yīng鹉wǔ是shì托tuō比bǐ亚yà斯sī与yǔ他tā已yǐ故gù父fù亲qīn之zhī间jiān唯wéi一yī的de连lián结jié。
That parrot was Tobias's only connection with his late father.

Questions about 鹦

How many strokes are in 鹦?

鹦 is written with 16 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.

What does 鹦 mean?

鹦 (yīng) means parrot. A common word with it is 鹦鹉 (yīngwǔ), meaning "parrot".

How do you pronounce 鹦?

鹦 is pronounced yīng, in the first tone (high and level).

What is the radical of 鹦?

The radical of 鹦 is 鸟, which carries the idea of "bird". Dictionaries list 鹦 under this radical.

What is the traditional form of 鹦?

The traditional form of 鹦 is 鸚. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; 鹦 is the simplified form used in mainland China and Singapore.

What does 鹦鹉学舌 mean?

鹦鹉学舌 (yīngwǔ xué shé) literally means a parrot imitating speech. It describes someone who just repeats what others say without their own thinking, and it is usually a mild criticism.

Can I use 鹦 by itself to mean parrot?

No. In modern Chinese you say 鹦鹉 (yīngwǔ) for parrot. On its own, 鹦 does not work as a word in normal speech or writing.