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おうとうたか
ioutounotatakai
noun
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】

うか
urashimakouka
noun
time dilation(slang)(named after the legend of Urashima Tarou)
Other readings:
浦島効果【うらしまこうか】

noun
Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)(usually kana)
Other readings:
ウラシマソウ

noun
Urashima Tarō, (a) Rip van Winkle, fairy-tale fisherman who, after visiting the underwater Palace of the Dragon King, returns centuries later

うらしまたろうじょうたい
urashimataroujoutai
noun
Rip van Winkle feeling, feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown

noun
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
Oshima cherry (Prunus speciosa)(usually kana)
Other readings:
オオシマザクラ

noun
Oshima tsumugi weave, type of pongee from Oshima

noun
Japan, ancient name for Japan appearing in the Kojiki(archaism)
See also:大八洲
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
mythological island of demons
Other readings:
鬼ケ島【おにがしま】
鬼が島【おにがしま】

じま
onokorojima
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:
  1. word containing out-dated kanji

noun, auxillary suru verb
to set upon a journey, to start travelling, to set off on a trip
See also:旅立ち,  出立

からふとちしまこうかんじょうやく
karafutochishimakoukanjouyaku
noun
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, auxillary suru verb
return to an island

noun
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
Sakurajima daikon (the largest variety of radish in the world)

noun
1.
Yamato (province)
See also:大和
2.
Japan
See also:日本
3.
the art of classical Japanese poetry(abbreviation)
See also:敷島の道
Other readings:
磯城島【しきしま】

noun
the art of classical Japanese poetry
See also:和歌

noun
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:
  1. word containing irregular kanji usage

noun
traditional Okinawan folk music

noun
faint outlines of an island, vague shape of an island, silhouette of an island

noun
lee of an island, area hidden by an island

noun
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum)(usually kana)
See also:油菊
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シマカンギク

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
island language, island dialect
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島ことば【しまことば】

noun
small-scale version of the 88 temples of Shikoku (Awaji Island, Shōdoshima, etc.)

noun, no-adjective
all over the island, throughout the island, on the island

noun
decorated flip-flops (esp. in Okinawa)
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島草履【しまぞうり】

noun
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period, shimada coiffure(abbreviation)

noun
ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth

noun
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period, shimada coiffure
Other readings:
島田髷【しまだわげ】

noun
from island to island, island-hopping

noun, auxillary suru verb
exile, banishment

noun
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)(usually kana)
Other readings:
シマフクロウ

noun
Okinawan pig breed
See also:アグー
Other readings:
シマウヮー

noun, auxillary suru verb
escaping from an island exile

noun
pancreatic islets, islets of Langerhans(anatomical term)

noun
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
territorial island, island regarded as attached to a country

noun
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
traditional women's hair style, with hair worn up and arched back
See also:島田髷

noun
matchlock, arquebus, harquebus(archaism)
See also:火縄銃
Other readings:
種が島【たねがしま】

noun, no-adjective
Tahiti

noun
arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus)(usually kana)
Other readings:
チシマイチゴ

noun
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
hairyflower bellflower (Campanula chamissonis)(usually kana)
Other readings:
チシマギキョウ

noun
woolly geranium (Geranium erianthum)(usually kana)
Other readings:
チシマフウロ

noun
type of yellow carrot grown in Okinawa
See also:金美人参,  人参
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チデークニ

noun
Korean Jindo (dog breed)
Other readings:
チンド犬【チンドけん】

noun
type of woman's hairdo (Edo period)
See also:島田髷
Other readings:
つぶし島田【つぶししまだ】

suffix
1.
Island(in place names)
noun (suffix), noun
2.
insula, island, islet(sometimes read しま)

noun, no-adjective
off an island, away from an island, off-island

noun
island arc, crescent-shaped archipelago
See also:弧状列島
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