Word Meaning 新藁

しんわら shinwara

新藁 is read as しんわら (shinwara) and means rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away.

Meaning

English

  1. rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away
  2. new straw
  3. straw from the current year

Reading

Kana

しんわら

Romaji

shinwara

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 30 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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新幹線

しんかんせん

Shinkansen

新鮮

しんせん

fresh

新人

しんじん

modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)

新興

しんこう

rising

新た

あらた

new

新規

しんき

new customer

新聞

しんぶん

newspaper

新年

しんねん

New Year

新米

しんまい

new rice

新しい

あたらしい

new

新築

しんちく

new building

新聞社

しんぶんしゃ

newspaper company