Word Meaning 軒猿

のきざる nokizaru

軒猿 is read as のきざる (nokizaru) and means ninja (esp. those serving the Uesugi clan during the Sengoku period).

Meaning

English

ninja (esp. those serving the Uesugi clan during the Sengoku period)

Reading

Kana

のきざる

Romaji

nokizaru

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 23 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 準2級 Rank 135717 Priority V

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

猿

さる

bathhouse prostitute

類人猿

るいじんえん

anthropoid ape

新世界猿

しんせかいざる

New World monkey (any monkey of infraorder Platyrrhini)

見猿聞か猿言わ猿

みざるきかざるいわざる

see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil

白手手長猿

しろててながざる

white-handed gibbon

日本猿

にほんざる

Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

手長猿

てながざる

gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)

フーロック手長猿

ふーろっくてながざる

hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)

旧世界猿

きゅうせかいざる

Old World monkey (any monkey of family Cercopithecidae)

意馬心猿

いばしんえん

it is hard to keep one's worldly desires and passions in check

道化猿

どうけざる

loris (esp. a slow loris)

袋手長猿

ふくろてながざる

siamang (species of gibbon, Symphalangus syndactylus)