うぐいす

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of うぐいす – see the following entry.

【鶯】H [noun] Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale [noun] short for 鶯色 (uguisu iro): an olive-green color, as the rear of a bush warbler [noun] short for 鶯声 (uguisu-goe): a description for a woman's beautiful voice [noun] a metal skewer used in 香道 (kōdō) to fasten a paper wrapper [noun] a bamboo skewer used in binding an obi or similar [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling ウグイス

(This term, うぐいす (uguisu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as うぐいす, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うぐいす.)