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シルスイキツツキ

Meanings

1

noun

yellow-bellied sapsucker

usually written using kana alone

A North American woodpecker species (Sphyrapicus varius). The Japanese name is a direct translation of its sap-sucking behavior.

シルスイキツツキは北ほく米べいに生せい息そくするキツツキの一いっ種しゅです。
The yellow-bellied sapsucker is a type of woodpecker that lives in North America.

Written forms

シルスイキツツキ
kana-only spelling
Standard katakana spelling for this bird name.
汁しる吸すい啄木鳥きつつき
Kanji spelling is rare and mostly of etymological interest; the word is usually written in kana.

Kanji

汁soup, juice, broth
吸

suck, imbibe, inhale

啄peck, pick up

木tree, wood

鳥bird, chicken

Etymology

The Japanese name シルスイキツツキ is composed of 汁 (sap), 吸う (to suck), and 啄木鳥 (woodpecker), literally 'sap-sucking woodpecker', a calque of the English name.