苍头燕雀

苍

蒼

ca̅ng

头

頭

tóu

燕

yàn

雀

què

(bird species of China) common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Characters and words in 苍头燕雀

苍

蒼

ca̅ng = c + ang1

surname Cang

苍 = 仓 + 艹 : The King of Chu (c) wants to embellish his barn (仓) in front of the anglepod (ang1). He wants to hide its ash-gray (苍) color and covers it in dark-green (苍) sheets of artificial lawn (艹).

苍

蒼

ca̅ng = c + ang1

dark blue / deep green / ash-gray

头

頭

tóu = t + ou2

head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

头 = ⺀ + 大 : Tecumseh (t) is inspecting is depiction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He's depicted as having a skull (mnemonic symbol for 头) head (头) with two petal leaves (⺀) in the eye holes, and having a robot (大) body.

头

頭

tou = t + ou5

suffix for nouns

燕

ya̅n = y + an1

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

燕

yàn = y + an4

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

燕 = 北 + 口 + 廿 + 灬 : Maud Younger (y) put a swallow (燕) on a grill (灬) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but before she did that she oriented the grill towards east using a compass rose (北). She also put a mandarin (口) in the swallow's mouth. Later she'll put the swallow in a flower pot (廿) when it is done.

燕

鷰

yàn = y + an4

variant of 燕[yan4]