鶲

鶲 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 金一竹日火 (CMHAF), four-corner 8712₇, composition ⿰翁鳥)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1496, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47179
• Dae Jaweon: page 2026, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4652, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9DB2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): phonetic 翁 (OC *qloːŋ) + semantic 鳥

鶲

1. flycatcher (bird)

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Old World flycatcher (a kind of bird)

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←をう (wou, historical)}
• Kun: ひたき (hitaki, 鶲)

Referred originally just to the 尉鶲 (jō bitaki, “Phoenicurus auroreus or Daurian redstart”), later came to refer to a number of visually similar species.

Likely a shift from 火焚き (hitaki, “lighting a fire”), from the characteristic call of the bird, which resembles the sound of striking a flint against a firestarter.^[1][2][3]

• (Tokyo) ひたき [hìtákí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [çita̠kʲi]

鶲(ひたき) or 鶲(ヒタキ) • (hitaki) 

1. an Old World flycatcher: a bird belonging to the Muscicapidae family

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ヒタキ (hitaki).

• 扇鶲(オウギビタキ) (ōgi-bitaki)
• 黄鶲(キビタキ) (ki-bitaki)
• 鮫鶲(サメビタキ) (same-bitaki)
• 尉鶲(ジョウビタキ) (jō-bitaki)
• 瑠璃鶲(ルリビタキ) (ruri-bitaki)