Word Meaning 柳の下にいつも泥鰌はおらぬ

やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ yanagi no shitaniitsumodojouhaoranu

柳の下にいつも泥鰌はおらぬ is read as やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ (yanagi no shitaniitsumodojouhaoranu) and means a fox is not taken twice in the same snare.

Meaning

English

a fox is not taken twice in the same snare
there are no birds in last year's nest
there aren't always loaches under the willow tree

Reading

Kana

やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ

Romaji

yanagi no shitaniitsumodojouhaoranu

Writing Variants

柳の下に何時も泥鰌は居らぬ やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ yanagi no shita ni itsu mo dojou ha oranu

Stroke Sequence

13 Characters • 60 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない

やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはいない

a fox is not taken twice in the same snare

柳下駄

やなぎげた

low geta made of willow

味女泥鰌

あじめどじょう

Niwaella delicata (species of loach)

台湾泥鰌

たいわんどじょう

blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

石泥鰌

いしどじょう

Cobitis takatsuensis (species of loach)

仏泥鰌

ほとけどじょう

Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)

泥鰌

どじょう

loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)

縞泥鰌

しまどじょう

Japanese striped loach (Cobitis biwae)

柳

やなぎ

weeping willow (Salix babylonica)

柳刃包丁

やなぎばぼうちょう

kitchen knife for sashimi

柳江人

りゅうこうじん

Liujiang man

柳橋新誌

りゅうきょうしんし

Ryūkyō Shinshi (book by Narushima Ryūhoku concerning the Yanigabashi pleasure quarters)