Artamidae
燕鵙科
yàn-jú kē

General

Information is from dictionaries and other sources. Pinyin reflects Mandarin pronunciation; for some dialect names, it is no more than a polite fiction. Korean glosses are tentative. Comments and corrections welcome. Hover over Green Lettering Green lettering at this site hides a tool tip with glosses, further explanations, etc. Hover cursor to reveal. to see additional information.

The wood swallow is not a particularly familiar bird to most Chinese, occurring in the far south. It is ornithologically known as a 燕 yàn-jú 'swallow-shrike', based on English 'swallow-shrike'. The name of the Ashy Woodswallow in the earliest ornithological list to feature Chinese names was 灰色燕伯劳 huī-sè yàn-bóláo 'grey-coloured swallow-shrike'. The modern ornithological name is a simplification of this involving the substitution of jú, an old literary name for the shrikes, for 伯劳 bóláo 'shrike'. (Note: The Simplified character set has 䴗, based on 鶪, as the character for 'shrike', but ornithologists prefer the non-standard simplification , based on 鵙).

Species names

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SCIENTIFIC & ENGLISH		CHINESE			EAST		SOUTH	NORTH
Artamus
Latin	English	Chinese	Chinese (Taiwan)	Other Ch	Japanese	Korean	Vietnamese	Mongolian
Artamus fuscus	Ashy woodswallow Ashy wood swallow Ashy swallow shrike	灰燕鵙 (灰燕鵙) huī yàn-jú 'grey swallow-shrike'		灰身了我 (灰身了我) huī-shēn le-wǒ ? 'grey shenliaowo' (meaning and reading unclear) 灰色燕伯劳 (灰色燕伯勞) huī-sè yàn-bóláo 'grey-coloured swallow-shrike' (early ornithological) (35) 灰伯劳 (灰伯勞) huī bóláo 'grey shrike'	ハイイロモリツバメ (灰色森燕) hai-iro mori-tsubame 'grey forest-swallow'		Chim Nhạn rừng 'forest-swallow (bird)' (12, 13, 34)

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