cormorant
A diving bird of the family Phalacrocoracidae. In Japan, the Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus) is famous for its use in ukai (cormorant fishing).
A cormorant is catching fish in the river.
The cormorant handler keeps cormorants by the riverside.
Cormorant fishing on the Nagara River is famous.
We watched the cormorants catch fish one after another.
swallowing whole; gulping down · accepting uncritically; swallowing a story
cormorant fishing · cormorant fisherman
great cormorant
pelagic cormorant
Japanese cormorant; Temminck's cormorant
Standard kanji spelling for cormorant.
The kanji 鵜 is a phono-semantic compound: 鳥 (bird) + 弟 (phonetic component). The reading う is native Japanese.