いわい
Meanings
Noun
1. congratulation; congratulations; celebration; festival
2. congratulatory gift; present
Pitch accent
わい
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
celebration; auspicious occasion
advance celebration
birthday celebration
wedding present
celebrating recovery from illness
sacred wooden pole used in traditional Koshogatsu ceremonies
congratulations on entering a school; gift to someone entering a school
housewarming gift; housewarming
celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth); gift at the birth of a child; baby gift
celebration of complete recovery from illness
festive poem or song; congratulatory form (of waka)
(informal) celebration
housewarming (party)
congratulatory gift
gift for close relatives or friends (given on the occasion of a family celebration); family celebration; private celebration
longevity celebration (of age 42, 61, 70, 77, 80, 88, 90 or 99)
celebration for the completion of a project
festive dress
traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility
obi-tying ceremony designed to ensure safe birth of a child
longevity celebration for one's 88th year
Day-of-the-Boar Festival
coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt
coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt
celebration held 50 days after the birth of a child
Examples (1 in total)
In spite of our congratulations, he frowned and turned away.