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Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
啄木
- (literary) woodpecker
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
啄木鳥 (“woodpecker”)
Descendants
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
啄木 or 啄木 • (takuboku)
- woodpecker
- Synonyms: 啄木鳥 (takubokuchō), キツツキ (kitsutsuki)
- abbreviation of 啄木組 (takubokugumi): a cord made of various colored threads
References
- Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- “啄木”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- “啄木組”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006