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鳥語花香 singing birds and fragrant flowers;
鳥獸行 bestiality, beastly conduct;
鳥獸星散 (of human beings) scatter like birds and animals;
鳥盡弓藏 kick out (s.o.) after his services are no longer needed, (lit.) “the bow and arrows are stacked away when there are no more birds to shoot”;
鳥面鵠形 (of starving people) haggard, emaciated;
人為財死，鳥為食亡 a man dies for money;
a bird dies for food.
(2) Male genital organ (var. 屌) *[diao3]: 撮鳥 (MC) a curse word, oft. used in 水滸.
2.鳥鎗 [niao3qiang1], n., fowling piece.
3.鳥銃 [niao3chong4], n., ditto.
4.鳥道 [niao3dao4], n., dangerously narrow hill path.
5.鳥篆 [niao3zhuan4], n., form of anc. script so called because it looked like birds’ footprints.
6.鳥瞰 [niao3kan4], (1) v.i., look down from above; (2) n., a bird's-eye view.
7.鳥窠 [niao3ke1], n., see [niao3chao2]↑.
8.鳥里 [niao2li3], n., (surveying) distance in miles “as the crow flies.”
9.鳥媒 [niao3mei2], n., a bird used as a decoy to catch other birds.
10.鳥信 [niao3xin4], n., (鳥信風) seasonal wind occurring in the third month of the lunar calendar.