イワイ
Meanings
Noun
1. congratulation; congratulations; celebration; festival
This is a celebratory occasion, so please hold back a little.
2. congratulatory gift; present
This is my gift to you for getting out of the hospital.
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (27 in total)
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
celebration; auspicious occasion
advance celebration
wedding present
birthday celebration
congratulations on entering a school; gift to someone entering a school
celebrating recovery from illness
housewarming gift; housewarming
celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth); gift at the birth of a child; baby gift; push present
celebration of complete recovery from illness
festive poem or song; congratulatory form (of waka)
(informal) celebration
housewarming (party)
congratulatory gift
gift for close relatives or friends (given on the occasion of a family celebration); family celebration; private celebration
longevity celebration (of age 42, 61, 70, 77, 80, 88, 90 or 99)
celebration for the completion of a project
sacred wooden pole used in traditional Koshōgatsu ceremonies
festive dress
traditional Koshōgatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility
obi-tying ceremony designed to ensure safe birth of a child
longevity celebration for one's 88th year
Day-of-the-Boar Festival
coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt
coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt
celebration held 50 days after the birth of a child
60th birthday celebration (usu. celebrated with a banquet-style meal while dressed in a red hat and vest symbolizing one's return to infancy)
Examples (9 in total)
Today is a celebratory occasion.
Once the baby is born, let me send a gift.
This is my gift to you for getting out of the hospital.