General names
Information is based on dictionaries and other sources. Species list may not be current. Korean glosses are only tentative. Comments and corrections welcome.
The only nuthatch found in Japan is Sitta europaea, which is known as the ゴジュウカラ gojū-kara.
Linguistically speaking, the name ゴジュウカラ gojū-kara suggests a kind of tit since -kara (or -gara) is used in the naming of tits. The name ゴジュウカラ gojū-kara, literally 'fifty-tit', forms a nice parallel with シジュウカラ shijū-kara 'forty tit' or Great Tit (Parus major). Kara (or -gara) is found only in combination, not as an independent word.
The Chinese character (kanji) for kara is 雀, otherwise used to write the word スズメ suzume or 'sparrow'.
Species names
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Sitta europaea |
Eurasian nuthatch or Wood nuthatch Nuthatch Sittelle torchepot Kleiber Обыкновенный поползень |
ゴジュウカラ (五十雀) gojū-kara 'fifty tit' |
普通䴓 (普通鳾） 'common nuthatch' |
(茶腹䴓) 茶腹鳾 'brown-bellied nuthatch' |
穿树皮 (穿樹皮) 'pierce tree bark' 松枝儿 (松枝兒) 'pine branch' |
아물동고비 amul-donggobi 'amul nuthatch' or 동고비 donggobi 'nuthatch' |
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