つる

See also: ツル and ツール

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つる – see the following entries.

【鶴】S	[noun] a crane (large, long-legged and long-necked bird of the family Gruidae) [noun] Short for 折鶴 (orizuru): a paper crane, the archetypical origami design [noun] Short for 鶴嘴 (tsuruhashi): a pickaxe [noun] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) depicting a crane [noun] (euphemistic) white hair [noun] a decoration made of straws and reeds in the form of two cranes, used during the 14th year of the first month in the former town of Sakurajima, Kagoshima Prefecture [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname Alternative spelling ツル
【弦】S	[noun] This term needs a translation to English.
【釣る】	[verb] to fish, to angle
【吊る】	[verb] hang
【攣る】	[verb] get a cramp

(This term, つる, is an alternative spelling of the above terms.
For a list of all kanji read as つる, not just those used in Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji read as つる.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 蔓.)