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鴫

snipe, (kokuji)

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Readings

On'yomi

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Kun'yomi

  • しぎ

Meaning

鴫 centers on a specific bird: the snipe, a long-billed wading bird. It is a kokuji, a kanji created in Japan rather than borrowed from Chinese.

Most common words using 鴫

  • 杓鴫しゃくしぎ

    curlew (any bird of genus Numenius)

  • 栗鴫象虫くりしぎぞうむし

    chestnut weevil (Curculio dentipes)

  • 玉鴫たましぎ

    painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)

  • 背高鴫せいたかしぎ

    black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

  • 青足鴫あおあししぎ

    greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)

  • 鴫鰻しぎうなぎ

    slender snipe eel (Nemichthys scolopaceus)

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Etymology

鴫 is a Japanese kokuji, combining 田 (rice field) with 鳥 (bird) to represent the snipe, a bird commonly found in wet fields.

Meaning mnemonic

A bird 鳥 in a rice field 田: that's a snipe, a wading bird often seen in muddy fields.

Reading mnemonic

For しぎ, imagine a snipe in the field making a soft 'shigi' call as it probes the mud: shigi -> しぎ.