鳴

to cry (of birds, animals and insects) / to make a sound / to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

variant of 屌[diao3] / penis

bird / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2] / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn

to fire warning shots

to hoot / to whistle

to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound

to express gratitude (esp. in public) / vote of thanks

to cry out against injustice / to protest unfairness

songbird

to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat

to toll a bell

to beat a gong

to beat the gong to clear the way / (fig.) to pave the way for sth

songbird

turtledove

lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)

to complain bitterly

to sound the horn / to honk

Screech-owl (genus Megascops, a.k.a. Otus)

to beat a gong / to sound the retreat

to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat