だるま落とし

Japanese

Kanji in this term
落
お Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
達磨落とし 達磨落し だるま落し

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) だるまおとし [dàrúmáóꜜtòshì] (Nakadaka – [4])
• IPA^(key): [da̠ɾɯ̟ma̠o̞to̞ɕi]

Noun

だるま落(お)とし • (darumaotoshi) 

1. "dropping the daruma", a game where a daruma is placed upon disks of wood, and these disks must be struck and removed with a hammer without the doll falling.