Word Meaning 天狗話

てんぐばなし tengubanashi

天狗話 is read as てんぐばなし (tengubanashi) and means boastful story.

Meaning

English

  1. boastful story
  2. story about tengu

Reading

Kana

てんぐばなし

Romaji

tengubanashi

Writing Variants

  • 天狗咄 てんぐばなし tengubanashi

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 25 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

天狗

てんぐ

tengu

天狗道

てんぐどう

world of the tengu

天狗物

てんぐもの

category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character

天狗礫

てんぐつぶて

rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)

天狗蝙蝠

てんぐこうもり

Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)

天狗茸

てんぐたけ

panther cap (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina)

天狗になる

てんぐになる

to get conceited

天狗風

てんぐかぜ

sudden gust

天狗フルーツ蝙蝠

てんぐふるーつこうもり

tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)

天狗倒し

てんぐだおし

large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain

天狗巣病

てんぐすびょう

witches' broom (plant disease)

天狗俳諧

てんぐはいかい

parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results)