赤髭

Japanese
Kanji in this term
赤 髭
あか
Grade: 1		 ひげ
Hyōgaiji

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [a̠ka̠çiɡe̞]

Noun

赤(あか)髭(ひげ) or 赤髭(アカヒゲ) • (akahige) 

  1. (literally) red beard; a man with a red beard
  2. a Ryukyu robin, Larvivora komadori

Usage notes

Two bird species, the Ryukyu robin (アカヒゲ (akahige), L. komadori) and the Japanese robin (コマドリ (komadori), L. akahige) were described by Swedish naturalist C.J. Temminck in 1835. Presumably, Temminck erred in using the Japanese name for each bird as the species name for the other.[1][2]

References
  1. “アカヒゲ”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
  2. “コマドリ”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984
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