Kanji

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: snipe, (kokuji)

Kunyomi: しぎ

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: bird

Examples

Kunyomi Examples

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

しぎうなぎ slender snipe eel (Nemichthys scolopaceus)

背高 せいたかしぎ black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus), stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae), avocet

しゃくしぎ curlew (any bird of genus Numenius)