Rostratulidae / 彩鷸科 (Cǎi-yù kē)

彩鹬科 Cǎi-yù kē * タマシギ科 Tama-shigi ka * 호사도요과 Hosa-doyo-gwa space Họ Nhát hoa

General names

Information is based on dictionaries and other sources. Comments and corrections welcome.

The painted snipe is known as 彩鷸 cǎi-yù ('coloured snipe') in Chinese.

畫眉zha huà-méi zhá 'painted eyebrow zha' or 'hwamei zha' is listed as an alternative Chinese name by the Cihai encyclopaedia. The term zha zhá is an old word for some kinds of waterfowl, probably the grebe.

Species names

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Rostratula benghalensis
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Painted snipe 		彩鷸
cǎi-yù
'coloured snipe'		 彩鷸
cǎi-yù
'coloured snipe'		 畫眉zha
huà-méi zhá
'painted eyebrow / hwamei zha'		 タマシギ
(玉鷸 or 玉鴫)
tama-shigi
'jewelled snipe'		   호사도요
hosa-doyo
'sumptuous doyo'		 Nhát hoa
'flowery nhat (woodcock)'
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