The word "鹦鹉" for parrot is formed by combining two phono-semantic characters: "鹦" uses the phonetic component "婴" for the sound "yīng" and the semantic component "鸟" for bird, while "鹉" uses the phonetic "武" for the sound "wǔ" and the same semantic "鸟" for bird, together representing the word phonetically and semantically.