大杓鴫

Japanese

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 1
しゃく
Hyōgai
しぎ
Hyōgai
goon kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
大杓鷸
大尺鷸

Etymology

Compound of (だい) (dai, big) + 杓鴫(しゃくしぎ) (shakushigi, curlew).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いしゃ [dàíshákúshíꜜgì] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [da̠iɕa̠kɯ̟̊ɕiɡʲi]

Noun

(だい)(しゃく)(しぎ) or 大杓鴫(ダイシャクシギ) • (daishakushigi

  1. a Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN