つる

See also: ツル and ツール

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つる – see the following entries.

【鶴】S [noun] a crane (large, long-legged and long-necked bird of the family Gruidae) [noun] Short for 折鶴 (orizuru): a paper crane, the archetypical origami design [noun] Short for 鶴嘴 (tsuruhashi): a pickaxe [noun] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) depicting a crane [noun] (euphemistic) white hair [noun] a decoration made of straws and reeds in the form of two cranes, used during the 14th year of the first month in the former town of Sakurajima, Kagoshima Prefecture [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling ツル

【蔓】J [noun] vine [noun] intermediary [noun] financial supporter

【弦】S [noun] a bowstring [noun] (music) the string of an instrument [noun] the bow-shaped handle of a pot or teapot

【釣る】 [verb] to fish, to angle

【吊る】 [verb] hang

【攣る】 [verb] get a cramp

(This term, つる (tsuru), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as つる, see Category:Japanese kanji read as つる.)