niǎo in a sentence

Bird

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 6 sentences

鸟 (niǎo) means Bird. Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

树上有两只

Shù shàng yǒu liǎng zhī niǎo.

There are two birds in the tree.

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早上能听见 的声音。

Zǎoshang néng tīngjiàn niǎo de shēngyīn.

In the morning you can hear birdsong.

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在树上唱歌。

Niǎo zài shù shàng chànggē.

Birds are singing in the tree.

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树上有一只

Shù shàng yǒu yì zhī niǎo.

There is a bird in the tree.

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From the graded readers

早上 叫的时候,我就起床了。

zǎoshang niǎo jiào de / dì shíhou, wǒ jiù qǐchuáng le / liǎo / liào.

When the birds start in the morning, I get up.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room

窗户外边有一棵树,上边常常有

chuāng hùwài biān yǒu yī kē shù, shàng biān chángcháng yǒu niǎo.

Outside the window there's a tree, and there are often birds in it.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room

Questions about 鸟

How is 鸟 used in a sentence?

This page shows 6 sentences using 鸟 (niǎo, "Bird"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 鸟 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 鸟 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 鸟 an HSK word?

Yes — 鸟 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 鸟?

The dictionary page for 鸟 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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