(obsolete, phonetics, phonology) Synonym of 子音 (shiin, “a consonant”)

(Japanese phonology) a mora with an onset consonant, such as か (ka) or が (ga)

Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon

the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon

Nymphaea lotus, the white Egyptian lotus

Compounds

(archaic, literary) to sleep with clothes overturned, as to meet their longed-for partner in a dream

the Tangut script (a logographic writing system used for writing the Tangut language of the Western Xia Dynasty)

the Tangut language

Alternative form of 夏の大三角形