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さお
Meanings
Noun
1. rod; pole
2. neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen
esp. 棹
3. beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance)
4. single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese)
5. penis
Counter
6. counter for flags (on poles); counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. yōkan)
Alt. forms
竿さお
77%
棹さお
9%
さお
8%
サオ
4%
Pitch accent
さ
お
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Used in: 251
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
to pole (a boat); to punt (a boat); to swim with (the tide); to go with (the flow, the times, etc.); to go against (the tide, the flow, etc.)
women who have had sex with the same man; (lit.) pole sisters
flail (for threshing grain)
saomono; Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)