シシ
Meanings
Noun
1. lion
2. left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine
Pitch accent
Composed of
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
shishito pepper (variety of Capsicum annuum)
lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume
Japanese deer fern (Blechnum nipponicum)
lion (king of beasts)
being irresistible; being furiously vigorous; being intensely forceful
Leo (constellation); the Lion; Buddha's seat; seat of a high monk
treacherous friend; snake in one's bosom; treacherous insider
Leo (5th zodiacal sign); the Lion
Haplopteris flexuosa (species of shoestring fern)
shishito; small sweet green pepper
Buddha's seat; seat of a high monk