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狗 kanji
puppy, dog
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クコウ
Kun readings
いぬ
Words with 狗
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —羊頭狗肉crying wine and selling vinegar; deceptive advertisement
- —一人天狗self-conceited person; ego-tripper; swelled head
- —鶏鳴狗盗person who resorts to petty tricks; person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks
- —増長天狗braggart; boaster; self-conceited person
- —紅天狗茸fly agaric (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita muscaria)
- —狗子仏性the Mu koan ("does a dog have Buddha nature?")
- —狡兎良狗When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off
- —卵天狗茸death cap (Amanita phalloides); death cup
- —天狗蝙蝠Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)
- —釣り天狗person who brags about (or prides themselves on) their fishing skill
- —天狗倒しlarge sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain
- —鞍馬天狗Kurama tengu; tengu of Kyoto's Mount Kurama, said to have taught the art of war to Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- —天狗俳諧parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haiku
- —狐狗狸さんkokkuri; divination technique similar to table turning and planchette
- —木の葉天狗weak tengu
- —木っ葉天狗weak tengu; small tengu
- —天狗になるto get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; to become a tengu
- —手長水天狗Bombay duck (Harpadon nehereus); bummalo
- —小天狗蝙蝠Ussuri tube-nosed bat (Murina ussuriensis)
- —大石天狗堂Oishi Tengudo (karuta maker); Ohishi Tengudo