ウグイス

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ウグイス – see the following entry.

【鶯うぐいす】H [noun] Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale [noun] short for 鶯色 (uguisu iro): an olive-green color, as the rear of a bush warbler [noun] short for 鶯声 (uguisu-goe): a description for a woman's beautiful voice [noun] a metal skewer used in 香道 (kōdō) to fasten a paper wrapper [noun] a bamboo skewer used in binding an obi or similar [proper noun] a surname

(This term, ウグイス (uguisu), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)