Kanji1 / 11
鳥 kanji
bird, chicken
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
チョウ
Kun readings
とり
Words with 鳥
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鳥瞰図bird's-eye view
- —鳥類学ornithology
- —花鳥画painting of flowers and birds; bird-and-flower genre in Chinese and Japanese painting
- —白鳥座Cygnus (constellation); the Swan
- —風鳥座Apus (constellation); the Bird-of-Paradise
- —肉食鳥carnivorous bird
- —人鳥類penguin
- —鳥盤類Ornithischia (order of herbacious dinosaurs with bird-like pelvic structures)
- —勧農鳥lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- —無常鳥lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- —瑠璃鳥Formosan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis); blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)
- —八哥鳥crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus); crested mynah
- —太陽鳥sunbird (any bird in the family Nectariniidae)
- —金襴鳥red bishop (species of African weaverbird, Euplectes orix)
- —黒雷鳥black grouse (Tetrao tetrix); blackcock (male black grouse); greyhen (female black grouse)
- —錦華鳥zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
- —天人鳥pin-tailed whydah (species of weaverbird, Vidua macroura)
- —香雨鳥brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)
- —三光鳥Japanese paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata)
- —鳥糞石guano