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天鹅

tiān'é

swan

HSK 9 · Topic “Plants and animals”
A cream swan glides across a jade lake near red water plants
Memory picture

Characters in this word

天 tiān

Strokes
4
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
Made of
一 one 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

鹅 é

Strokes
12
Radical
鸟 — bird
Made of
我 I, me, my 鸟 bird
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 湖面结冰之前，几只天鹅仍在浅水区缓慢觅食。 Húmiàn jiébīng zhīqián, jǐ zhī tiān'é réng zài qiǎnshuǐqū huǎnmàn mìshí. Before the lake surface froze, several swans were still slowly foraging in the shallow water area.
  • 两只天鹅在湖上安静地游着。 Liǎng zhī tiān'é zài hú shàng ānjìng de yóu zhe. Two swans are swimming quietly on the lake.
  • 冬天来了，天鹅飞到南方过冬。 Dōngtiān lái le, tiān'é fēi dào nánfāng guò dōng. Winter has come, and the swans fly south to spend the winter.

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