Meaning of 鶴 in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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鶴, 田鶴
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Kana Readingつる, たず, ツル
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Romajitsuru, tazu, tsuru
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)
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Example Sentences
鶴, 田鶴, つる, たず, ツル used in context
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彼女は天井からぶら下がっている自分の鶴の群に目をやった。これは兄の雅弘が禎子のためにつるしてくれたものだった。
She looked at her flight of cranes hanging from the ceiling, which her brother Masahiro had hung there for her.
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She tried to touch the golden crane.
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彼女の級友達は356羽の鶴を折り、千羽が彼女と一緒に埋葬された。
Her classmates folded three hundred and fifty-six cranes so that one thousand were buried with her.
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Sadako had folded 643 paper cranes so far.
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禎子は、親友のチズコが自分のために折ってくれた金色の鶴に目をやった。
Sadako looked at the golden paper crane that her best friend Chizuko had made for her.
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鶴たちは何と美しく
うつくしい 自由じゆう なだ んでしょう。禎子はため息をついてためいきをつく 、目め を閉じたとじる 。How beautiful and free they the cranes were! Sadako sighed and closed her eyes.
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