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Definition(s) for: 金丝燕

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
金丝燕 jīn sī yàn - Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 53,417 - 122,688

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
jīn- surname Jin
- surname Kim (Korean)
- Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
jīn- gold
- chemical element Au
- generic term for lustrous and ductile metals
- money
- golden
- highly respected
- one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- silk
- thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips
- classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
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[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436)
- surname Yan
yàn- swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- old variant of 宴[yan4]
yàn- variant of 燕[yan4]

Other Words Containing 金丝燕

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
金丝燕 - - 53,417 - 122,688