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狗 kanji
puppy, dog
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クコウ
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いぬ
Words with 狗
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —天狗Populartengu; red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains; bragging; conceit; braggart; boaster; conceited person
- —狗肉dog meat; dog flesh
- —走狗hound; hunting dog; running dog; dupe; tool of another person; cat's-paw
- —狗屠dog slaughter; killing of dogs; dog butcher
- —狗吠dog bark
- —天狗風sudden gust
- —天狗話boastful story; story about tengu
- —天狗茸panther cap (Amanita pantherina)
- —烏天狗small, crow-billed tengu
- —海天狗short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis)
- —天狗猿proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus); long-nosed monkey
- —大天狗large tengu; powerful tengu; big braggart; blowhard
- —天狗物category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece
- —小天狗small tengu; promising young martial arts practitioner
- —狐狗狸kokkuri; divination technique similar to table turning and planchette
- —金天狗golden tengu
- —天狗礫rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)
- —天狗道world of the tengu; hell of the long-nosed goblins
- —八天狗hattengu; tengu said to live among the 8 mountains of Atago, Hira, Daisen, Ōmine, Kurama, Iizuna, Hiko, and Shiramine
- —狗奴国Kuna-koku; ancient Japanese state thought to have existed during the late Yayoi period as a rival to Yamatai-koku