mikado

See also: Mikado and mikádó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) +‎ 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈkɑːdəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

Noun

mikado (countable and uncountable, plural mikados)

1. (history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
2. (literary, countable) Any emperor of Japan.

   Synonym: tenno

   The mikados of Japan are its emperors.

   • 1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado:

     Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
     When he to rule our land began,
     Resolved to try a plan whereby
     Young men might best be steadied.

3. A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.

   Synonym: pick-up sticks

4. A fabric having a stiff twill weave.

Translations

emperor of Japan

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天皇 (zh) (tiānhuáng), 皇帝 (zh) (huángdì), 帝 (zh) (dì)

• Danish: mikado c (archaic), japansk kejser
• Dutch: Japanse keizer m, mikado (nl) m
• Esperanto: mikado
• Finnish: Japanin keisari, mikado (fi)
• French: empereur japonais m, mikado (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Mikado (de) m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: mikádó (hu)
• Japanese: 帝 (ja) (みかど, mikado), 御門 (ja) (みかど, mikado), 天皇 (ja) (てんのう, tennō)
• Korean: 천황(天皇) (ko) (cheonhwang), 일왕(日王) (irwang) (Korea under Japanese rule)
• Malay: mikado
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikado m

  Nynorsk: mikado m

• Polish: mikado m
• Romanian: mikado (ro) m
• Russian: мика́до (ru) m (mikádo)
• Vietnamese: Ngự Môn (御門), Nhật hoàng (日皇)

a game of skill

• Danish: mikado
• Dutch: mikado (nl) m
• Finnish: mikado (fi)
• Hebrew: דּוּקִים m pl (dukim)
• Hungarian: mikádó (hu), marokkó (hu)
• Portuguese: micado (pt) m
• Romanian: mikado (ro) n
• Swedish: plockepinn (sv) n

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} micado

See also

• Chrysanthemum Throne

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 御門.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kaːˌdoː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

Noun

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. mikado, pick-up sticks (game of skill)

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ˌmiˈkaː.doː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

Noun

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. (history) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan

Esperanto

Etymology

From Japanese みかど (mikado).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miˈkado]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

Noun

mikado (accusative singular mikadon, plural mikadoj, accusative plural mikadojn)

1. mikado

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) +‎ 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ka.do/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

mikado m (plural mikados)

1. (history) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan
3. mikado (game of skill)

Further reading

• “mikado”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Romanization

mikado

1. Rōmaji transcription of みかど

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈkado/ [miˈka.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: mi‧ka‧do

Noun

mikado m (plural mikados)

1. mikado

Further reading

• “mikado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10