Kanken 1
鷸

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
-
Jōyō
-
JLPT
-
Frequency
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Strokes
23
Radical
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Components
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Kanji Kentei
Level 1
Similar Kanji
鱊 • 鐍 • 霱 • 矞 • 劀 • 潏 • 獝

Related vocabulary

16 common entries

Showing 16 of 25 entries that include this kanji.

鷸

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

青い鷸が川の上をすっと飛んでいった。

A blue kingfisher darted over the river.

干潟で鷸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.

池のそばで鷸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、鷸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.

鷸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.