えんび

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of えんび – see the following entries.

[noun] a round-tipped 纓 (ei, “the tail of a 冠 (kanmuri, “traditional silk cap”)”)

[noun] a type of forked arrowhead in the shape of a swallow's tail

[noun] Short for 燕尾帽 (enbibō, “a high black hat with long split sides, worn by monks and blind court musicians”).

[noun] (painting) a method of painting bamboo leaves in the 南画 (Nanga, “literati painting”) style

【鳶尾】	[noun] Synonym of 一初 (ichihatsu, “roof iris, Iris tectorum”)

【艶美】	[adjective] sensuously beautiful [noun] sensual beauty

(This term, えんび (enbi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)