kouchou

Animals in Japanese / Names List / Starting with ko こ

Translation

kouchou means "Japanese Bush Warbler" in English.

kouchou written with kanji is 黄鳥.
These are jouyou kanji 常用漢字, taught in the second year of shougakkou 小学校.

kouchou written with katakana is コウチョウ.
kouchou written with hiragana is こうちょう.

Romaji	ko	u	cho	u
Hiragana	こ	う	ちょ	う
Katakana	コ	ウ	チョ	ウ
Kanji	黄		鳥
Meaning	Yellow		Bird
School Level	小２		小２

Orthography Notes

ちょ is a compound kana representing a single syllable with multiple characters.

Synonyms

uguisu 鶯, harudori 春鳥, harutsugedori 春告鳥, hanamidori 花見鳥, utayomidori 歌詠鳥, kyouyomidori 経読鳥, nioidori 匂鳥, hitokudori 人来鳥, momochidori 百千鳥, kin'ikoushi 金衣公子, houshundori 報春鳥, kinakodori 黄粉鳥, todomedori 禁鳥, hatsune 初音.

Beware: some kanji that are difficult to handwrite are easy to type on the computer, which may skew the usage statistics.

Further Reading

Wikipedia: 鶯 (Japanese_bush_warbler)

gachou 鵞鳥, garanchou 伽藍鳥, kitsutsuki 啄木鳥, kera 啄木鳥, keratsutsuki 啄木鳥, sayonakidori 小夜鳴き鳥, sandaabaado サンダーバード, shichimenchou 七面鳥, jinchou 人鳥, sekisei-inko 背黄青鸚哥, takubokuchou 啄木鳥, dachou 駝鳥, hakuchou 白鳥, hataoridori 機織鳥, hachidori 蜂鳥, raichou 雷鳥.