鸟巢 (niǎo cháo) — bird's nest; nickname for Beijing National Stad…

Definition

Literally 'bird's nest', but commonly used in China as the popular nickname for the Beijing National Stadium, built for the 2008 Olympics.

noun

bird's nestnickname for Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest)

Measure word · 个

鸟巢。
Nà zhī niǎo cháo shì yòng shù zhī hé cǎo zuò de.
That bird's nest is made of twigs and grass.
鸟巢2008。
Běi jīng niǎo cháo shì 2008 nián ào yùn huì de zhǔ chǎng guǎn.
Beijing's Bird's Nest was the main venue of the 2008 Olympics.
鸟巢。
Wǒ kàn dào yì zhī niǎo zài shù shàng dā niǎo cháo.
I saw a bird building a nest in a tree.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

鸟 identifies whose nest, and 巢 is the nest itself.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 鳥; 鸟 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 鳥 came from a drawing of a bird with a dangling tail; the simplified 鸟 is a later abbreviation.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

巢 shows a baby bird in a nest on top of a tree.

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