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とり

Meanings

Noun

1. bird

2. bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

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Used in vocabulary (48 in total)

small bird; little bird

large bird; peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish); fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)

yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game

Examples (128 in total)

とりが描えがけない。

I can't draw a bird.

それはとりです。

It's a bird.

それはとりですか。

Is it a bird?