しぎ
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (14 in total)
common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
tinamou (any bird of family Tinamidae)
Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
ruddy turnstone (species of sandpiper, Arenaria interpres)
whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus); stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae); avocet
common redshank (Tringa totanus)
phalarope (any sandpiper of family Phalaropodidae)
ruff; reeve (species of sandpiper, Philomachus pugnax)
grey-tailed tattler (species of sandpiper, Heteroscelus brevipes)
curlew (any bird of genus Numenius)
common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)