Chinese symbol for “budgie”
虎斑鹦鹉
hǔ bān yīng wǔ
Traditional: 虎斑鸚鵡
budgerigar (genus Psittacella, several species); budgie
The closest CC-CEDICT match for budgie is 虎斑鹦鹉 (hǔ bān yīng wǔ), defined as: budgerigar (genus Psittacella, several species); budgie.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 虎斑鹦鹉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老虎 | lǎo hǔ | tiger; 只 (zhī) |
| 猛虎 | měng hǔ | fierce tiger |
| 马虎 (馬虎) | mǎ hu | careless; sloppy |
| 龙虎 (龍虎) | lóng hǔ | outstanding people; water and fire (in Daoist writing) |
| 虎牙 | hǔ yá | (coll.) eye tooth (maxillary canine tooth) |
| 壁虎 | bì hǔ | gecko; house lizard |
| 斑点 (斑點) | bān diǎn | spot; stain |
| 斑马 (斑馬) | bān mǎ | zebra; measure word: 匹 (pǐ) |
| 鹦鹉 (鸚鵡) | yīng wǔ | parrot |
| 鹦鹉螺 (鸚鵡螺) | yīng wǔ luó | nautilus; ammonite (fossil spiral shell) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “budgie”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.