うぐいす
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale
2. greenish brown
3. having a beautiful voice
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
いす
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Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
olive green; greenish brown
nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)
match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
female announcer; woman who makes public announcements (e.g. from an election campaign truck)
mochi filled with red bean paste and topped with green soy flour
young greens (of mizuna, Japanese mustard spinach, rape, etc.)
sweet brownish-green paste made from green peas
first Japanese bush warbler to chirp this year (i.e. spring)
bun filled with sweet green pea paste
Lonicera gracilipes (species of honeysuckle)
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)