竜巻

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Tornado

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Alternative spellings
龍卷 (kyūjitai) 竜巻き

Compound of 竜 (tatsu, “dragon”) +‎ 巻き (maki, “whirl, spiral”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem form”) of verb 巻く (maku, “to wind, to roll”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

竜(たつ)巻(まき) • (tatsumaki)

a tornado, a twister
Synonym: トルネード (torunēdo)
- 1999 May 25, “ワイバーン [Wyvern]”, in BOOSTER 2, Konami:
  
  羽(はね)をはばたかせて強(きょう)力(りょく)な竜(たつ)巻(まき)をおこす。
  Hane o habatakasete kyōryoku na tatsumaki o okosu.
  It causes powerful tornadoes by flapping its wings.
a whirlwind, a dust devil (smaller than a tornado)
Synonym: 旋風 (senpū, tsumujikaze)
a waterspout

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN