鹰鷹 in English

Measure word

• 只 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc attested in use

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鷹, the traditional character: 鹰 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 西晉
• See all 6 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 狮子是兽类之王的话，鹰就是鸟类之王。

  If the lion is the king of beasts, the eagle is the king of birds.

• 老鹰不会去抓苍蝇。

  The eagle does not catch flies.

• 这不是一只鹰。

  This isn't an eagle.

All example sentences with 鹰