Definition of (つる)

つる

つる

tsuru

noun
crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
Other readings:
【たず】
田鶴【たず】
ツル
Related Kanji
crane, stork
rice field, rice paddy
Example sentences(showing 15 results)

As she watched, the birds, especially Chizuko's golden crane, looked alive in a light autumn breeze

Cranes are big beautiful birds

かのじょ
彼女の
きゅ
ともだち
友達
356
つる
せん
かのじょ
彼女
いっしょ
一緒に
まいそう
埋葬
Her classmates folded three hundred and fifty-six cranes so that one thousand were buried with her

Will you make me a paper crane

つる
せん
ねん
チズコ
Chizuko said, "A crane is supposed to live for one thousand years.

かのじょ
彼女
きん
つる
She tried to touch the golden crane

The crane was standing on one leg

"I can't even make a crane," she said to herself

禎子
644
つる
Sadako had folded 643 paper cranes so far

ねん
記念碑
いちばん
一番
うえ
禎子
あた
うえ
きん
つる
On top of the statue, Sadako is holding a golden crane over her head

She looked at her flight of cranes hanging from the ceiling, which her brother Masahiro had hung there for her

つる
、禎子
せんづる
千羽鶴
さいしょ
最初の
いち
一羽
It was the first of the one thousand cranes that Sadako had to make

How beautiful and free the cranes were! Sadako sighed and closed her eyes

禎子
しんゆう
親友
チズコ
きんいろ
金色
つる
Sadako looked at the golden paper crane that her best friend Chizuko had made for her

焼け野
きじ
雉子
よる
つる
A mother's heart is always with her children