鶲

鶲 (radical 196, 鳥+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 金一竹日火 (CMHAF), four-corner 8712₇, composition ⿰翁鳥)

• KangXi: page 1496, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47179
• Dae Jaweon: page 2026, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4652, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9DB2

鶲

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(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Old World flycatcher (a kind of bird)

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←をう (wou, historical)}
• Kun: ひたき (hitaki, 鶲)

Referred originally just to the 尉鶲 (jō bitaki, “Phoenicurus auroreus or Daurian redstart”), later came to refer to a number of visually similar species.

Likely a shift from 火焚き (hitaki, “lighting a fire”), from the characteristic call of the bird, which resembles the sound of striking a flint against a firestarter.[1][2][3]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ひたき [hìtákí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [çita̠kʲi]

• 火焼

鶲 (hiragana ひたき, katakana ヒタキ, rōmaji hitaki)

1. an Old World flycatcher: a bird belonging to the Muscicapidae family

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ヒタキ.