ツル

See also: ツール and つる

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ツル – see the following entry.

[noun] a crane (large, long-legged and long-necked bird of the family Gruidae)

[noun] Short for 折鶴 (orizuru): a paper crane, the archetypical origami design

[noun] Short for 鶴嘴 (tsuruhashi): a pickaxe

[noun] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) depicting a crane

[noun] (euphemistic) white hair

[noun] a decoration made of straws and reeds in the form of two cranes, used during the 14th year of the first month in the former town of Sakurajima, Kagoshima Prefecture

(This term, ツル, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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