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Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
啄木鳥
- woodpecker
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
啄木鳥 (“woodpecker”)
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Japanese
Etymology 1
From 木 (ki, ke, “wood”) + 突き (tsutsuki, stem of 突く (tsutsuku, “to poke”)). The kanji is jukujikun (熟字訓).
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Pronunciation
Noun
啄木鳥 or 啄木鳥 or 啄木鳥 or 啄木鳥 • (kitsutsuki or keratsutsuki)
- a woodpecker
Etymology 2
From Chinese 啄木鳥/啄木鸟 (zhuómùniǎo).
Pronunciation
Noun
啄木鳥 or 啄木鳥 • (takubokuchō) ←たくぼくてう (takubokuteu)?
- a woodpecker
References
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN