いわ
Meanings
Noun
1. rock; boulder
2. crag; cliff
3. anchor
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (61 in total)
Iwaki (former province located in the central and eastern parts of present-day Fukushima and southern Miyagi prefectures)
cavern; grotto
water trickling from rocks
Iwashiro (former province located in the west of present-day Fukushima Prefecture)
Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus)
rocky mountain
among rocks
rock tripe (edible lichen used as medication in Korea, China and Japan)
shade of a rock
Iwate (prefecture)
natural mineral pigments
sheer cliff
rocky outcrop; jumble of rocks
rocky area; rocky tract; rocky stretch (of a climb); wall (of rock)
cavern; grotto
bare rock; rock surface; rock face
monolith; large slab of rock
halite; rock salt
rock door (to a cave)
edge or corner of a stone
rock climbing
Iwagaki oyster (Crassostrea nippona)
Iwagaki oyster (Crassostrea nippona)
alpine gesneriad (Conandron ramondioides)
alpine gesneriad (Conandron ramondioides)
wild harvested nori; jelly lichen (Collema sp.)
rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
Selaginella tamariscina (species of spikemoss)
stone wall; natural stone wall
stone-like socle (used as the base for a Buddhist statue)
belt used for back support after fifth month of pregnancy
pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)
rock paintings; rock art
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
Chinese dunce cap (species of succulent plant, Orostachys iwarenge)
keiskei fetterbush (Leucothoe keiskei); doghobble; dog hobble
Epigaea asiatica
alpine accentor (Prunella collaris)
rock wallaby
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
where there is a will, there is a way
chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar)
roseroot (Rhodiola rosea)
Pyrrosia tricuspis (species of felt fern)
mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus); Rocky Mountain goat
creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)
green verditer
Selaginella tamariscina (species of spikemoss)
Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae); Ryukyu eyelid gecko
Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus); kha-nyou; rat-squirrel
Iwane Station
Takaiwa Station
Iwata Station (Yamaguchi)
Iwafune Dam
Iwakura Dam
Iwakura Station
Mount Iwahara
Examples (25 in total)
Mary was sitting on a rock.
The waves washed upon the rocks.
A rock fell from above.