| 白腰燕鸥 |
bái yāo yàn ōu |
(bird species of China) Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus) |
| 白 |
Bái |
surname Bai |
| 白 |
bái |
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera |
| 腰 |
yāo |
the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch; pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc) |
| 燕 |
Yān |
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) / surname Yan |
| 燕 |
yàn |
swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴 |
| 燕 |
yàn |
variant of 燕 |
| 鸥 |
ōu |
common gull |