Kanken 1

Meaning

Kanji 鷸

kingfisher

kingfisher, snipe

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Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
しぎ
Onyomi 音読み
イツ
Nanori 名乗り
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Jōyō
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Frequency
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Strokes
23
Radical
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Components
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Kanji Kentei
Level 1
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Showing 16 common entries

Showing 16 of 25 entries that include this kanji.

しぎ

sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

鷸蚌

いつぼう

a snipe and a clam

鷸蚌の争い

いつぼうのあらそい

fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does)

鷸駝鳥

しぎだちょう

tinamou (any bird of family Tinamidae)

アメリカ大杓鷸

アメリカだいしゃくしぎ

long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus)

アメリカ鰭足鷸

アメリカひれあししぎ

Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

メリケン黄脚鷸

メリケンきあししぎ

wandering tattler (Tringa incana)

磯鷸

いそしぎ

common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

黄脚鷸

きあししぎ

grey-tailed tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes)

灰色鰭足鷸

はいいろひれあししぎ

red phalarope

京女鷸

きょうじょしぎ

ruddy turnstone (species of sandpiper, Arenaria interpres)

襟巻鷸

えりまきしぎ

ruff

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

青いが川の上をすっと飛んでいった。

A blue kingfisher darted over the river.

干潟でがくちばしを使ってえさを探していた。

On the mudflat, a snipe was searching for food with its beak.

池のそばでを見かけたのは初めてだ。

It was the first time I had seen a kingfisher near the pond.

夕方になると、の群れが静かな浜に降りてきた。

Toward evening, a flock of snipes came down to the quiet beach.

は枝の先でじっと水面を見つめていた。

The kingfisher stayed still on the tip of a branch, watching the water's surface.