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雁 kanji
wild goose
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On readings
ガン
Kun readings
かりかりがね
Variant forms
鳫鴈Words with 雁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —雁Popularwild goose
- —雁Gan; The Wild Geese (1913 novel by Mori Ōgai)
- —雁行the flight formation of geese; lining up shoulder to shoulder like flying geese; leading out
- —雁首head (of a Japanese pipe, i.e. the bowl and shank); neck; head
- —雁書letter
- —雁爪claw hoe; coal-trimming rake
- —雁木zigzag pattern; zigzag formation; steps down from a pier; pathway covered by extended eaves to protect from snow; large saw used by lumberjacks
- —落雁rakugan; dry confection of starch (e.g. rice, soy or barley flour) and sugar, mixed and pressed into a pattern; geese alighting
- —真雁greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
- —雁足ostrich fern; Onoclea orientalis
- —雁皮Diplomorpha sikokiana (species of flowering plant); paper made from the fibre of this plant
- —野雁bustard (esp. the great bustard, Otis tarda)
- —白雁snow goose (Chen caerulescens); blue goose
- —過雁flying goose
- —孤雁solitary wild goose (i.e. separated from its flock, esp. flying)
- —雁下area below the pectoral muscle
- —帰雁wild geese returning north in the spring
- —鴻雁wild geese; large geese and small geese
- —黒雁brent goose (Branta bernicla); brant; brant goose
- —雁瘡ecthyma; prurigo