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
- —花鳥風月beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics; artistic pursuits involving nature themes
- —極楽鳥花bird of paradise flower; Strelitzia reginae
- —愛鳥週間Bird Week (starting on May 10 of each year)
- —白鳥の歌swan song
- —ロック鳥roc
- —花鳥諷詠the beauties of nature and the harmony that exists between it and man (as the key poetic theme of a haiku)
- —蝦夷雷鳥hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia)
- —樺太雷鳥willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus); red grouse
- —落花啼鳥the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping)
- —草原雷鳥greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)
- —慈悲心鳥rufous hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx hyperythrus); northern hawk-cuckoo
- —野鳥観察birdwatching; birding
- —赤飾風鳥Raggiana bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea raggiana); Count Raggi's bird-of-paradise
- —籠鳥檻猿denied freedom (of how to live one's life); living like a caged bird
- —籠鳥恋雲longing for freedom when tied down; caged bird's longing for the open sky
- —一石三鳥killing three birds with one stone
- —狩猟鳥獣animals that can legally be hunted; game animals
- —鳥卵学者oologist
- —鳥類学者ornithologist
- —鳥獣戯画Scrolls of Frolicking Animals (set of 12th and 13th century picture scrolls)