人們把這種鳥叫做布穀鳥。

People call this kind of bird a cuckoo.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 人們 rénmen people
=2 把 bǎ
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: 把 bǎ + {noun} + {verb})
=2 把 bà handle
=2 把 pá
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
3 這種 zhèzhǒng this kind of
=4 鳥 diǎo
  1. variant of 屌 diǎo
  2. penis
=4 鳥 niǎo
  1. bird
  2. "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196)
  3. (dialect) to pay attention to
  4. (intensifier) damned
  5. goddamn

classifiers: 隻, 群
5 叫做 jiàozuò to be called; to be known as
6 布穀鳥 bùgǔniǎo common cuckoo