Meaning

Kanji 犰

name of a legendary beast

name of a legendary beast, rabbit-like creature with a bird-like beak and snake-like tail

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Unicode code: U+72B0

Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
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Onyomi 音読み
キュウ
Nanori 名乗り
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Jōyō
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Kanji Kentei
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犰狳

きゅうよ

armadillo

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

古い本に、は山に現れる獣だと書かれている。

An old book says that the creature appears in the mountains.

は兎に似ているが、尾は蛇のようだという。

It is said that the creature looks like a rabbit, but its tail is like a snake.

その絵巻には、鳥のようなくちばしを持つが描かれていた。

That picture scroll showed a creature with a bird-like beak.

村の老人は、子どものころにの話を何度も聞いたそうだ。

The old villager said he often heard stories about the creature when he was a child.

学者たちは、が想像上の獣かどうかを議論している。

Scholars are debating whether the creature is only an imaginary beast.