たんざく

See also: たんさく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of たんざく – see the following entry.

【短冊】 [noun] a small strip of paper that can be written on, especially those hung on bamboo or other trees during Tanabata [noun] a vertical card on which Japanese poetry (waka, haiku, etc.) can be written [noun] a thin strip of cloth before the middle perforation of, for example, a cuff [noun] Synonym of スリップ (surippu): a transliteration of the English word 'slip' [noun] (historical, colloquial) Synonym of 一分金 (ichibukin) a rectangular gold coin worth one 分 (bu, one-fourth of a ryō) [noun] Short for 短冊形 (tanzaku-gata): a thin rectangle [noun] Short for 短冊箱 (tanzaku-bako): a box in which tanzaku or tea utensils are stored. [noun] a small twisted piece of paper used in the lottery Alternative spellings 短尺, 短籍

(This term, たんざく (tanzaku), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)