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Kanji Detail for 雉 - "pheasant, wall"
雉
- Meaning
雉 means "pheasant, wall."
Pheasant - A bird of the family Phasianidae.
Wall - A fortification; a rampart.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
pheasant
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
pheasant; crenellated wall
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
ringed pheasant
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
pheasant; crenellated wall
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A bird name. Its shape and habits are similar to a chicken. The male is very beautiful, the female is not. They inhabit mountains and fields, eat grains and tender leaves, and damage crops. Thus they are a harmful bird. Empress Lü of Han was named Zhi, so it was taboo and called 野雞 (wild chicken). This practice continues today. | An ancient unit of measurement in construction. A square zhang is called 堵. Three 堵 make one 雉. Therefore the low wall on a city wall is called 雉堞.
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