Your search matched 185 words.
Search Terms: *島*
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noun
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Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
Other readings:
硫黄島の戦い【いおうじまのたたかい】
noun
1.
floating mass (of waterweeds, ice, etc.)
2.
floating island (mirage)
Other readings:
浮き島【うきじま】
、浮島【うきしま】
、浮島【うきじま】
noun
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time dilation(slang)(named after the legend of Urashima Tarou)
Other readings:
浦島効果【うらしまこうか】
noun
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Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)(usually kana)
Other readings:
ウラシマソウ
noun
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Rip van Winkle feeling, feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown
noun
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Rip van Winkle effect (for a woman), feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to Japan (for a woman)
noun
1.
remote island, distant island(only relevant for えんとう and とおじま)
2.
punishment by exile to a remote island(only relevant for えんとう and おんとう)
Other readings:
遠島【とおじま】
、遠島【おんとう】
noun
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Oshima cherry (Prunus speciosa)(usually kana)
Other readings:
オオシマザクラ
noun
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Other readings:
大八洲国【おおやしまのくに】
、大八島国【おおやしまぐに】
、大八島国【おおやしまのくに】
、大八嶋国【おおやしまぐに】
、大八嶋国【おおやしまのくに】
noun
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mythological island of demons
Other readings:
鬼ケ島【おにがしま】
、鬼が島【おにがしま】
noun
1.
Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear), Onogoro Island(archaism)
See also:天の瓊矛
2.
Japan
Other readings:
オノゴロ島【オノゴロじま】
、磤馭慮島【おのころじま】[1]
、磤馭慮島【おのごろじま】[1]
Notes:
- word containing out-dated kanji
noun
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Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875), Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
Other readings:
樺太・千島交換条約【からふとちしまこうかんじょうやく】
noun
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larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)(obscure)(sometimes read ごんどうくじら)
See also:巨頭鯨
Other readings:
ゴトウクジラ
noun
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Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)
noun
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striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex), white trevally(usually kana)
Other readings:
しまあじ《縞鯵》
、しまあじ《島鯵》[1]
、シマアジ
Notes:
- word containing irregular kanji usage
noun
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faint outlines of an island, vague shape of an island, silhouette of an island
noun
1.
mother tongue (from the island where one was raised)(usually kana, Ryuukyuu-ben (dialect))
2.
Okinawan neologism (developed by the language revival movement)(usually kana, Ryuukyuu-ben (dialect))
Other readings:
しまくとぅば《島くとぅば》
、しまクトゥバ《島クトゥバ》
、シマクトゥバ
noun
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island country mentality, insular spirit, insularism, insularity(yojijukugo)
noun
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small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)
See also:四国八十八箇所
noun, no-adjective
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all over the island, throughout the island, on the island
noun
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decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)
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島草履【しまぞうり】
noun
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pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period, shimada coiffure(abbreviation)
noun
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pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period, shimada coiffure
See also:島田 (しまだ)
Other readings:
島田髷【しまだわげ】
noun
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Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)(usually kana)
Other readings:
シマフクロウ
noun
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noun
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Other readings:
セントビンセント及びグレナディーン諸島【セントビンセントおよびグレナディーンしょとう】
noun
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Turks and Caicos Islands
Other readings:
タークス・カイコス諸島【タークスカイコスしょとう】
noun
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traditional women's hair style, with hair worn up and arched back
See also:島田髷
noun
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arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus)(usually kana)
Other readings:
チシマイチゴ
noun
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red-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax urile), red-faced shag, violet shag(usually kana)
Other readings:
ちしまうがらす《千島鵜鴉》
、チシマウガラス
noun
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hairyflower bellflower (Campanula chamissonis)(usually kana)
Other readings:
チシマギキョウ
noun
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Pyropia kurogii (species of red algae)(usually kana)
Other readings:
チシマクロノリ
noun
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woolly geranium (Geranium erianthum)(usually kana)
Other readings:
チシマフウロ
suffix
1.
Island(in place names)
noun (suffix), noun
2.
insula, island, islet(sometimes read しま)
noun, no-adjective
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off an island, away from an island, off-island
See also:島内 (とうない)