How to say "hawk" in Japanese

• たかCommon
  nounThe bird: the everyday word for hawks and falcons. It is normally written in kana rather than with kanji, so たか is the usual written form you will encounter and produce.
  その鳥とりは鷹たかの半分はんぶんの大おおきさしかなかった。↗

  The bird was half the size of a hawk.
• ホーク
  nounAlso the bird, but a loanword and less common than たか. It appears mainly in names, products, and transliterations; for the bird in ordinary sentences たか is the word to reach for.
• 売り歩くうりあるく
  godan verb, transitive verbA verb, not the bird: it means to peddle goods, going around selling them — the sense of 'hawk' in 'hawking wares'. It never refers to the animal.

For the bird use 「たか」 (or 「ホーク」, mainly in borrowings and names); for the verb meaning to peddle goods use 「売り歩く」, which is unrelated to the bird sense.

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• たかhawk
• ホークhawk
• 売り歩くうりあるくto peddle (goods)