大杓鴫

Japanese

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 1
しゃく
Hyōgaiji
しぎ
Hyōgaiji
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): [da̠iɕa̠kɯ̟̊ᵝɕiɡʲi]

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, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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