いざよい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いざよい – see the following entries.

Alternative spelling
猶予

[noun] Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon

[noun] the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon (common time for viewing the harvest moon in the Japanese 月見 (tsukimi, “moon viewing”) festival)

[noun] (by extension of the "16" sense, poetic) sixteen years old

[noun] (by extension of the "16" sense, archaic) a bet of 16 銭 (sen) on a competition or game of chance

[proper noun] a female given name

(This term, いざよい (izayoi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)