Chinese has a lot of specific characters for various species of birds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_196 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_196), fis

Chinese has a lot of specific characters for various species of birds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_196 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_196), fish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_195 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_195), and "bugs" (which includes small reptiles and certain other non-warm-blooded animals) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_142 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_142). One of my favorite features of the language is the fact that every element in the periodic table gets its own character - and the characters have radicals that indicate their usual state of matter (钅 for metal, 石 for non-metal solids, 氵 for liquids, 气 for gases) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_elements_in_East_Asian_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_elements_in_East_Asia.... There are also lots of specific words for species of trees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_75 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_75) and other plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_140 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_140), but characters under those radicals also include botanical terms, medicines, things made of wood and plants, etc.