Word Meaning 七面鳥

しちめんちょう shichimenchou

七面鳥 is read as しちめんちょう (shichimenchou) and means turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).

Meaning

English

  1. turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

Reading

Kana

しちめんちょう

Romaji

shichimenchou

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 22 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 21750 Priority D

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

七面体

しちめんたい

heptahedron

七面倒

しちめんどう

very troublesome

七面倒くさい

しちめんどうくさい

extremely bothersome

七福神

しちふくじん

Seven Gods of Fortune

七不思議

ななふしぎ

seven wonders (of a particular area)

七草

ななくさ

the seven spring flowers

七対子

ちーといつ

seven pairs

七五調

しちごちょう

seven-and-five-syllable meter

七公三民

しちこうさんみん

land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent

七化け

ななばけ

dance in which the performer quickly changes his clothes seven times

七生報国

しちしょうほうこく

unfailing devotion to one's country

七事式

しちじしき

seven tea ceremony procedures of the Senke school

Example Sentences

9

This turkey tastes good.

Have you ever eaten turkey?

Have you ever eaten turkey?

Why do Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving?

Our family usually has turkey for Thanksgiving.

Our family usually has turkey for Thanksgiving.

It's not a Thanksgiving dinner without turkey.

I cannot even boil water, much less roast a turkey.

The turkeys in my grandfather's farm are very noisy, I can't wait for them to get eaten.