Chinese symbol for “heron”
鹭
lù
Traditional: 鷺
heron
The closest CC-CEDICT match for heron is 鹭 (lù), defined as: heron.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “heron”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 鹭.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白鹭 (白鷺) | bái lù | (bird species of China) little egret (Egretta garzetta) |
| 苍鹭 (蒼鷺) | cāng lù | (bird species of China) grey heron (Ardea cinerea) |
| 鹭鸶 (鷺鷥) | lù sī | egret |
| 琵鹭 (琵鷺) | pí lù | spoonbill (wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae) |
| 朱鹭 (朱鷺) | zhū lù | ibis; Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) |
| 黑冠麻鹭 (黑冠麻鷺) | hēi guān má lù | (bird species of China) Malayan night heron (Gorsachius melanolophus) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “heron”.
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.