Phalacrocoracidae
ウ科
u ka

General

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The Japanese word for cormorant is ウ u, written 鵜 in Chinese characters. (Note that in Chinese 鵜 tí refers to the pelican, as in 鵜鶘 tíhú.)

The Orient has a long tradition of using the cormorant for fishing, a practice that is sadly dying out. Cormorant fishing is known in Japanese as 鵜飼い u-kai or u-gai ('cormorant raising') and mainly uses P. capillatus/filamentosus.

In Japanese, expressions referring to 'cormorants' include:

The term 鵜呑みにする u-nomi ni suru ('swallow like a cormorant'), which means 'to swallow whole' or, in a figurative meaning, 'to swallow uncritically', from the bird's habit of swallowing fish whole.

The expression 鵜の目鷹の目 u no me taka no me 'eyes of a cormorant, eyes of a hawk' refers to looking for something with sharp or keen eyes.

Species names

SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN		JAPANESE		CHINESE			KOREAN
Phalacrocorax
Latin	Eng, Fr, Ger, Ru	Japanese	Other J	Chinese	Chinese (Taiwan)	Other Ch	Korean
Phalacrocorax pelagicus Leucocarbo pelagicus	Pelagic cormorant Sea cormorant Cormoran pélagique Meerscharbe Берингов баклан	ヒメウ (姫鵜) hime-u 'princess cormorant'		海鸬鹚 (海鸕鶿) hǎi lúcí 'sea cormorant (bird)'	(海鸬鹚) 海鸕鶿 hǎi lúcí 'sea cormorant'	乌鹈 (烏鵜) wū-tí 'dark pelican' (dict) (FS)	쇠가마우지 soe-gamauji 'small cormorant'
Phalacrocorax urile	Red-faced shag Red-faced cormorant Cormoran à face rouge Rotgesichtscharbe Краснолицый баклан	チシマウガラス (千島鵜烏) chishima u-garasu 'Kurile cormorant-crow'		红脸鸬鹚 (紅臉鸕鶿 hóng-liǎn lúcí 'red-faced cormorant'		水老鸦 (水老鴉) shuǐ lǎo-yā 'water crow' (FS)
Phalacrocorax carbo	Great cormorant Cormorant Common cormorant Grand Cormoran Kormoran Баклан большой	カワウ (河鵜) kawa-u 'river cormorant'		普通鸬鹚 (普通鸕鶿) pǔtōng lúcí 'common cormorant' (1, 2, 3, 4) 鸬鹚 (鸕鶿) lúcí 'cormorant' (5. alt in 1)	(鸬鹚) 鸕鶿 lúcí 'cormorant'	鱼鹰 (魚鷹) yú-yīng 'fish hawk' (FS) (also Osprey) 墨鸦 (墨鴉) mò yā 'black-ink crow' 水老鸦 (水老鴉) shuǐ lǎo-yā 'water crow' 水老鸹 (水老鴰) shuǐ lǎo-guā 'water crow' (northern) (FS) 鱼老鸹 (魚老鴰) yú lǎo-guā 'fish crow' (FS) 海鹈 (海鵜) hǎi-tí 'sea pelican' (FS) 乌鬼 (烏鬼) wū-guǐ 'dark demon' (southern) (FS) 黑鱼郎 (黑魚郎) hēi yú-láng 'black fisherman' (FS) 鷧 (鷧) yì 'cormorant' (Materia Medica) (FS)	민물가마우지 min-mul-gamauji 'freshwater cormorant'
Phalacrocorax capillatus Phalacrocorax filamentosus	Japanese cormorant Temminck's cormorant Cormoran de Temminck Japankormoran Уссурийский баклан	Phalacrocorax filamentosus: ウミウ (海鵜) umi-u 'sea cormorant'		绿背鸬鹚 (綠背鸕鶿) lǜ-bèi lúcí 'green back cormorant' (2, 4) 暗绿背鸬鹚 (暗綠背鸕鶿) àn-lǜ-bèi lúcí 'dark green back cormorant' (1, 3, 5)	(丹氏鸬鹚) 丹氏鸕鶿 dān-shì lúcí 'Mr Dan's cormorant'	斑头鸬鹚 (班頭鸕鶿) bān-tóu lúcí 'stripe-headed cormorant' (6, 7) 特明氏鸬鹚 (特明氏鸕鶿) tèmíng-shì lúcí 'Mr Teming's cormorant' (FS)	가마우지 gamauji 'cormorant'

中国鸟类种和亚种分类名录大全（修订版） 郑作新 著 科学出版社 北京 2000年
A Complete Checklist of Species and Subspecies of the Chinese Birds (Revised Edition) by Cheng Tso-Hsin, Science Press, Beijing 2000

中国鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2005年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of China Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2005

中国鸟类野外手册（中文版）约翰・马敬能、卡伦・菲利普斯，合作者：荷芬奇，翻译：卢和芬 湖南教育出版社 长沙 2000年
A Field Guide to the Birds of China (Chinese translation) by John MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, in collaboration with He Fen-qi, translated by Lu Hefen, Hunan Jiaoyu Chubanshe (Hunan Educational Press) Changsha 2000

世界鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2002年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of the World Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2002

世界鸟类名称（拉丁文、汉文、英文对照）第二版 郑作新等 科学出版社 北京 2002年
Birds of the World (Latin, Chinese and English Names) 2nd ed. by Cheng Tso-Hsin et al, Science Press, Beijing 2002

中国鸟类分布名录 第二版 郑作新 科学出版社 北京 1976年
(Checklist of the Classification of Birds of China 2nd edition by Cheng Tso-Hsin, Science Press, Beijing 1976)

香港及華南鳥類（第六版）（翻譯成中文及重新修訂） 尹璉、費嘉倫、林超英 香港性徵特區政府新聞處政府印務局 1994年
Birds of Hong Kong and South China (6th edition, translated into Chinese and newly revised) by Clive Viney, Karen Phillipps, Lin Chaoying, Hong Kong Govt. Press 1994