| 普通潜鸟 |
pǔ tōng qián niǎo |
(bird species of China) common loon (Gavia immer) |
| 普 |
pǔ |
general / popular / everywhere / universal |
| 普通 |
pǔ tōng |
common / ordinary / general / average |
| 通 |
tōng |
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc |
| 通 |
tòng |
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) |
| 潜 |
qián |
hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive |
| 潜鸟 |
qián niǎo |
loon (bird of genus Gavia) |
| 鸟 |
diǎo |
variant of 屌 / penis |
| 鸟 |
niǎo |
bird / CL:只,群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn |