Word Meaning 俳句

はいく haiku

俳句 is read as はいく (haiku) and means haiku.

Meaning

English

  1. haiku
  2. 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

Reading

Kana

はいく

Romaji

haiku

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 15 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 5025 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

俳句会

はいくかい

haiku gathering

国際俳句交流協会

こくさいはいくこうりゅうきょうかい

Haiku international association

俳優

はいゆう

actor

俳人

はいじん

haiku poet

俳壇

はいだん

the world of the haiku

俳諧

はいかい

haikai (collective name for haiku, haibun, haiga, senryū, etc.)

俳優労働組合

はいゆうろうどうくみあい

Actors Equity Association

俳優組合

はいゆうくみあい

British Actors' Equity Association

俳諧の連歌

はいかいのれんが

haikai no renga (humorous, often vulgar style of renga which emerged in the 16th century)

俳名

はいめい

pseudonym of a haiku poet

俳文

はいぶん

prose with a poetic haiku flavor (flavour)

俳画

はいが

briefly drawn picture

Example Sentences

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はいくはにほんのでんとうてきなしのけいしきです。

Haiku is a form of traditional Japanese poetry.

はいくはことばのかんけつさがとくちょうです。

Haiku is known for its simplicity of words.

はいくをつくることはにほんぶんかのいちぶです。

Making haiku is part of Japanese culture.

はいくはかんけつになしぜんをひょうげんします。

Haiku expresses nature concisely.

かれはすばらしいはいくをよんだ。

he composed a wonderful haiku.

This is a sentence that has the syllable count of a haiku.

Umezawa has had the hobby of writing haikus since he was young.

Under the shadow of the oak tree, Tom and Mary recited haiku to each other all day long.

Now that I think of it, I've been asked to look at a haiku he'd written by the tipsy bloke sitting next to me on the train.

When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.