Search Terms: *瓢*
Dictionary results(showing 16 results)
noun
1.
green calabash, unripe gourd
2.
scrawny, pale person, sallow-faced person
expression, noun
•
simple food and drink, being content with a frugal life, a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink(idiom )(from the Analects of Confucius)
Other readings:
一簞の食一瓢の飲【いったんのしいっぴょうのいん】
noun
1.
bottle gourd
2.
ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
Other readings:
千成り瓢箪【せんなりびょうたん】
、千生り瓢箪【せんなりびょうたん】
、千生瓢箪【せんなりびょうたん】
noun
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simple food and drink, being content with a frugal life, a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink(obscure, yojijukugo)(from the Analects of Confucius)
Other readings:
簞食瓢飲【たんしひょういん】
noun
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ladybug (Harmonia axyridis), ladybird
Other readings:
天道虫【てんとうむし】
、瓢虫【てんとうむし】
、紅娘【てんとうむし】
、テントウムシ
noun
1.
handsome fungus beetle (any beetle of family Endomychidae)(usually kana)
2.
Other readings:
テントウムシダマシ
noun
•
seven-spot ladybird, seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)(usually kana)
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ななほしてんとう《七星瓢虫》
、ナナホシテントウ
noun
•
28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)(usually kana)
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ニジュウヤホシテントウ
noun
1.
gourd, calabash, bottle gourd(archaism)
2.
dried gourd, used as flask
Other readings:
瓠【ひさこ】[1]
、瓠【ひさ】[1]
、匏【ひさご】
、匏【ひさこ】[1]
、瓢【ひさご】
、瓢【ひさこ】[1]
、瓢【ひょう】
Notes:
- out-dated or obsolete kana usage
noun
•
gourd, calabash (Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda)(usually kana)
Other readings:
ヒョウタン
expression, noun
1.
something appearing from a place you wouldn't expect, something said as a joke actually happening, a horse from a gourd(idiom )
2.
something impossible, something ridiculous(idiom )
Other readings:
ひょうたんから駒【ひょうたんからこま】
expression, Ichidan verb
1.
something appearing from a place you wouldn't expect, something said as a joke actually happening, a horse comes out from a gourd(idiom )
2.
something impossible, something ridiculous(idiom )
Other readings:
ひょうたんから駒が出る【ひょうたんからこまがでる】