かんこどり

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of かんこどり – see the following entry.

【閑古鳥】 [noun] [from 1603] a cuckoo [noun] [from 1718] (figurative) loneliness, dreariness, desolateness Alternative spelling 閑子鳥

(This term, かんこどり (kankodori), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)