踊おどり
Meanings
Noun
1. dancing; dance
2. iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character)
3. Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
4. eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving
occ. written 躍り
5. soft spot (in the skull of an infant); fontanelle; fontanel
6. live shrimp (as a sushi dish)
7. doubling of loan interest upon bill renewal if failed to repay (Edo period); double interest
from 踊り歩
Kanji used
dance
Pitch accent
お
どり
Top 7300
Used in vocabulary (29 in total)
place for dancing; dance floor; landing (of a staircase); leveling off (e.g. in the economy); cooling off
dancer (usu. female)
to begin to dance; to break into a dance
Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
to dance in ecstasy
to begin to dance; to break into a dance
naked dance; dancing naked; striptease; strip show
Awa Odori Festival (Tokushima)
Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
kumi odori; traditional Ryūkyūan dance style
to dance all night; to dance until dawn
comic performance in which a face is drawn on the bare belly and the performer dances to animate it; belly dance performed as a party trick
"dancing" with hands and arms from a seated position; dancing empty-handed
to spring up; to leap to one's feet; to jump up and down
dancing or jumping for joy
to dance away
Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
song performed while dancing; ballad
deer dance; costumed folk dance from NE Japan
float at a festival upon which one can dance
dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district
mass dancing; large-group dancing; dance with entire troupe
iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); repetition sign; ditto mark
dragon dance (e.g. in the Nagasaki Kunchi festival)
word consisting of (two) repeated syllables
refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month
dancing on a street corner
Examples (5 in total)
"Are you going to the dance?" "Of course!"
The waltz and the samba are dances.
My girlfriend is a good dancer.