オドリ
Meanings
Noun
1. dancing; dance
Are you making a new dance again?
2. iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character)
3. Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
4. eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving
occ. written 躍り
5. soft spot (in the skull of an infant); fontanelle; fontanel
6. live shrimp (as a sushi dish)
7. doubling of loan interest upon bill renewal if failed to repay (Edo period); double interest
from 踊り歩
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
dancer (usu. female)
Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
Awa Odori Festival (Tokushima)
"dancing" with hands and arms from a seated position; dancing empty-handed
place for dancing; dance floor; landing (of a staircase); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); cooling off
dancing or jumping for joy
naked dance; dancing naked; striptease; strip show
kumi odori; traditional Ryūkyūan dance style
Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
comic performance in which a face is drawn on the bare belly and the performer dances to animate it; belly dance performed as a party trick
song performed while dancing; ballad
Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district
deer dance; costumed folk dance from NE Japan
float at a festival upon which one can dance
mass dancing; large-group dancing; dance with entire troupe
iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); repetition sign; ditto mark
early kabuki dance
dragon dance (e.g. in the Nagasaki Kunchi festival)
refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month
dancing on a street corner
word consisting of (two) repeated syllables
Examples (10 in total)
Did you start dancing?
"Are you going to the dance?" "Of course!"
The waltz and the samba are dances.