時鳥

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ほととぎす
Grade: 2 Grade: 2
jukujikun

Glyph origin

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The kanji spelling literally means “time bird”, as the lesser cuckoo's timely arrival in early summer can be used as a metaphor for new life detaching from the past.[1]

See also (とき)(どり) (tokitsudori) and (とき)(とり) (toki no tori).

Definitions

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For pronunciation and definitions of 時鳥 – see the following entry.
ほととぎすホトトギス
[noun] the lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus
Alternative spellings
子規, 杜宇, 杜鵑, 田鵑, 蜀魂, 郭公, 不如帰
(This term, 時鳥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

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  1. ^ Daniel Gallimore (2019) “Of Ponds, Lakes, and the Sea: Shōyō, Shakespeare, and Romanticism”, in Alex Watson, Laurence Williams, editors, British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English), Springer, →ISBN, page 281