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
snipe
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus); stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae); avocet
chestnut weevil (Curculio dentipes)
slender snipe eel (Nemichthys scolopaceus)
curlew (any bird of genus Numenius)