だるまさんが転んだ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
転
ころ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
だるまさんが轉んだ (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of だるまさんが転んだ – see the following entry.

【達磨だるまさんが転ころんだ】 [noun] daruma-san ga koronda ("Daruma fell over"), a Japanese children's game equivalent to the Western "statues" 【達磨さんが転んだ】 [interjection] The 10-syllable interjection used to count down, syllable by syllable, in daruma-san ga koronda

(This term, だるまさんが転んだ, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)