啄

Meaning

啄 centers on a bird's quick, repeated striking motion: pecking at food or picking up small items with the beak.

• 啄木たくぼく

  woodpecker

• 啄木鳥きつつき

  woodpecker

• オリーブ姫啄木鳥オリーブひめきつつき

  olivaceous piculet (species of bird, Picumnus olivaceus)

• 啄たく

  seventh principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; stroke that falls leftwards with slight curve

• 啄ばむついばむ

  to pick at; to peck at

• 啐啄そったく

  once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; golden opportunity

• 啐啄同時そったくどうじ

  timing is everything; don't jump the gun

• 嘴細啄木鳥はしぼそきつつき

  northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

• 団栗啄木鳥どんぐりきつつき

  acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)

• 大赤啄木鳥おおあかげら

  white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos)

• 小啄木鳥こげら

  pygmy woodpecker (Dendrocopos kizuki)

• 小赤啄木鳥こあかげら

  lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor)

• 木啄きたたき

  white-bellied woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis)

• 汁吸啄木鳥しるすいきつつき

  yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)

• 烏啄骨うたくこつ

  coracoid

• 熊啄木鳥くまげら

  black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)

• 緑啄木鳥あおげら

  Japanese green woodpecker (Picus awokera); Japanese woodpecker; wavy-bellied woodpecker

• 赤啄木鳥あかげら

  great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

• 野口啄木鳥のぐちげら

  Okinawa woodpecker (Sapheopipo noguchii)

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