ツル

See also: ツール, and つる

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ツル – see the following entry.

【鶴つる】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

(This term, ツル (tsuru), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)