DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

綠喉太陽鳥

简绿喉太阳鸟 · 繁綠喉太陽鳥

Mandarin · pinyin lǜ hóu tài yáng niǎo

(bird species of China) green-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

綠: lǜ · green; chlorine
喉: hóu · throat, gullet, larynx; guttural
太: tài · very, too, much; big; extreme
陽: yáng · the active, male principle in Chinese philosophy (yang); light; sun
鳥: niǎo · bird; Kangxi radical 196
绿: lǜ · green; chlorine
阳: yáng · 'male' principle; light; sun
鸟: niǎo · bird; Kangxi radical 196

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–2–4–2–3 · lu:4 hou2 tai4 yang2 niao3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

8character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

綠喉太陽鳥 · find source passages ↗ · 绿喉太阳鸟 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

luk6 hau4 taai3 joeng4 niu5

Cantonese word readings for 綠喉太陽鳥. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack