Today’s second #kanji is #鳥, which makes its own radical. 鳥 is a pictograph depicting a bird with a long tail. It looks very similar to 島 but they are not quite related.
Meaning: a bird
Reading: チョウ、とり（どり）
鳥人（チョウジン）: a birdman, a birdwoman, an airman, an airwoman
鳥獣（チョウジュウ）: birds and animals, wildlife
白鳥（ハクチョウ）: a swan
野鳥（ヤチョウ）: a wild bird, wild fowl
鳥（とり）: a bird, a fowl, a feathered creature
鳥居（とりい）: a torii, an archway to a Shinto shrine
鳥目（とりめ）: night blindness, nyctalopia
鳥（とり）かご: a birdcage
白鳥（しらとり）: a white bird
水鳥（みずどり）: a waterbird, a waterfowl
渡り鳥（わたりどり）: a migratory bird, a bird of passage
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