Word Meaning 十六夜

いざよい izayoi

十六夜 is read as いざよい (izayoi) and means sixteen-day-old moon.

Meaning

English

sixteen-day-old moon

Reading

Kana

いざよい

Romaji

izayoi

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 91475 Priority O

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

十二夜

じゅうにや

Twelfth Night

十日夜

とおかや

Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

十三夜

じゅうさんや

13th day (of the moon)

十五夜

じゅうごや

night of the full moon

十夜

じゅうや

ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar)

十六茶

じゅうろくちゃ

Jūrokucha (blended tea drink)

二十三夜

にじゅうさんや

23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month)

八十八夜

はちじゅうはちや

eighty-eighth day from the beginning of spring

十六

じゅうろく

十六分音符

じゅうろくぶおんぷ

sixteenth note

十六羅漢

じゅうろくらかん

the sixteen arhats

三十六計

さんじゅうろっけい

the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)

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