白喉針尾雨燕

(bird species of China) white-throated needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus)

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

diphtheria

throat / larynx

needle / pin / injection / stitch / CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]

tail / remainder / remnant / extremity / sixth of the 28 constellations / classifier for fish

horse's tail / pointed posterior section of a locust etc

rain / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]

(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet

swift / Apodidae (the swift family)

Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern 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

swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴[yan4]

variant of 燕[yan4]