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
curlew (any bird of genus Numenius)
chestnut weevil (Curculio dentipes)
painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
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.
