チョウチン
Meanings
Noun
1. paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern
Pitch accent
チョ
ウチ
Used in vocabulary (12 in total)
football fish (any fish of family Himantolophidae, esp. the Atlantic footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus)
red paper restaurant lantern; cheap eating and drinking place
lantern bearer; flatterer; booster; brown-noser
puff piece (in a newspaper, etc.); flatteringly exaggerated article; sycophantic article
lantern ghost; demonic lantern
puffed-up sleeves
flashlight-like lantern with a freely rotating candle that only directs light forward
round paper lantern
two ill-matched things; two poorly balanced things; (lit.) temple bells to paper lanterns