Woodpecker in Chinese (Mandarin): 啄木鸟 (zhuómùniǎo)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 啄木鸟

• 啄

  To peck. 口 (mouth) is on the left.

  11 strokes

• 木

  Wood, tree.

  4 strokes

• 鸟 / 鳥

  Bird.

  5 strokes

啄木鸟 is the "peck wood bird". It is called the tree doctor (树木医生) because it eats bugs hiding in trees.

More examples with 啄木鸟

• 啄木鸟是树的医生。

  啄木鳥是樹的醫生。

  Zhuómùniǎo shì shù de yīshēng.

  The woodpecker is the tree's doctor.

• 我听到啄木鸟在啄树。

  我聽到啄木鳥在啄樹。

  Wǒ tīng dào zhuómùniǎo zài zhuó shù.

  I hear a woodpecker pecking the tree.

How to write 啄木鸟 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.

In Traditional characters: