Where does “鵜” come from?

鵜 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 鯎, from Japanese 食い — eating, grubbing up; bite.

鵜 (Japanese): a cormorant

Definitions

  1. a cormorant

Ancestry of “鵜”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese鯎the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled...
2Japanese食いeating, grubbing up; bite

Words derived from “鵜”

Every word from Japanese 食い →Every word from Japanese 鯎 →