もどき
Meanings
Suffix
Usually written in kana
1. -like; pseudo-; mock ...; imitation ...; in the style of ...
Noun
2. comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts)
3. criticism; censure
Kanji used
imitate
Pitch accent
どき
Used in vocabulary (15 in total)
Japanese winterberry; Ilex serrata
whip scorpion (Thelyphonida spp.)
pilot fish (Naucrates ductor)
kissing loach (Leptobotia curta)
web-spinner (any insect of order Embioptera, esp. family Oligotomidae)
common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
Gonista bicolor (species of grasshopper resembling the Oriental longheaded locust)
Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus); Indo-Pacific beaked whale; tropical bottlenose whale
Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae); Ryukyu eyelid gecko
mock swallowtail butterfly moth (Epicopeia hainesii)
Javanese long pepper (Piper retrofractum)
mantidfly (any insect of the family Mantispidae)