黑枕燕鷗

(bird species of China) black-naped tern (Sterna sumatrana)

abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]

black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)

pillow / to pillow / to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhen4] for this sense)

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]

common gull