鶲

鶲 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 金一竹日火 (CMHAF), four-corner 8712₇, composition ⿰翁鳥)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1496, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47179
• Dae Jaweon: page 2026, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4652, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9DB2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : phonetic 翁 (OC *qloːŋ) + semantic 鳥

鶲

1. flycatcher (bird)

• 火焼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Old World flycatcher (a kind of bird)

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Referred originally just to the 尉鶲 (jō bitaki, “Phoenicurus auroreus or Daurian redstart”), later came to refer to a number of visually similar species.

Likely a shift from 火焚き (hitaki, “lighting a fire”), from the characteristic call of the bird, which resembles the sound of striking a flint against a firestarter.[1][2][3]

• (Tokyo) ひたき [hìtákí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [çita̠kʲi]

鶲(ひたき) • (hitaki) 

1. an Old World flycatcher: a bird belonging to the Muscicapidae family

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ヒタキ.