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
- —海鳥糞guano
- —三鳥派Sanchō Sect (of the Fuji School of Nichiren Buddhism; 1661-1673)
- —鳥脚類ornithopods
- —瘤白鳥mute swan (Cygnus olor)
- —鷸駝鳥tinamou (any bird of family Tinamidae)
- —八色鳥fairy pitta (Pitta nympha)
- —走鳥類ratites
- —鳥瞰的bird's-eye
- —寒苦鳥cold-suffering bird; kankuchō; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes; (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori
- —防鳥網bird net; bird netting
- —鳥海薊Cirsium chokaiense (species of thistle)
- —裁縫鳥tailorbird (Orthotomus sp.)
- —花鳥図painting of flowers and birds; bird-and-flower genre in Chinese and Japanese painting
- —狩猟鳥game bird; game fowl
- —紅葉鳥red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea)
- —鳥卵学oology (study of bird eggs)
- —相思鳥Japanese nightingale (Leiothrix lutea); Peking robin; red-billed leiothrix
- —小白鳥tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus); Bewick's swan; whistling swan
- —胡錦鳥Gouldian finch (Chloebia gouldiae); rainbow finch
- —鳥頸類ornithodira (ancestor of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, etc.)