禽
禽 in English
- (bound form) birds / fowl / (literary) birds and animals / old variant of 擒[qin2]
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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君子對於飛禽走獸，見到它們活著，便不忍心見到它們死；聽到它們哀叫，便不忍心吃它們的肉。
The superior man is affected towards animals: having seen them alive, he cannot bear to see them die; having heard their cries, he cannot bear to eat their flesh.
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良禽择木而栖，贤臣择主而事。
A prudent bird chooses its tree. A wise servant chooses his master.
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苍鹭是一种涉禽。
The heron is a wading bird.