Chinese symbol for “eagle”
老鹰
lǎo yīng
Traditional: 老鷹
(coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey
The closest CC-CEDICT match for eagle is 老鹰 (lǎo yīng), defined as: (coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “eagle”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 老鹰.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老师 (老師) | lǎo shī | teacher |
| 老婆 | lǎo pó | (coll.) wife |
| 老板 | lǎo bǎn | variant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn) |
| 老人 | lǎo rén | old man or woman; the elderly |
| 老公 | lǎo gōng | (coll.) husband |
| 猫头鹰 (貓頭鷹) | māo tóu yīng | owl |
| 猎鹰 (獵鷹) | liè yīng | falcon |
| 秃鹰 (禿鷹) | tū yīng | vulture; condor |
See also: Japanese symbol for “eagle”.
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.