鶴

Glyph origin
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Etymology
Possibly from. Compare 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬 but 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) crane (bird)
 * 2) white

Etymology 1
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Japanese_crest_Tsuru_no_Maru.svg

Given a crane's long neck and how the bird hunts, possibly related to ; ;,. Given how cranes flock together, possibly related also to, older root form of modern verb. That said, also appears to ultimately derive from.

Vovin (2008) considers it possibly related to an ancestor of 🇨🇬, with a root-final -m vanishing later, leaving only a Kansai accent pattern behind. May ultimately be a regional Wanderwort. Compare also 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.

The reading tsuru is first seen used to mean “a crane” from the late Heian period. Prior to that time, the only reading used for the bird was tazu. However, the kanji was used in the 'Man'yōshū' (759 ) as a  reading for, the  of , suggesting that tsuru may have already existed as an everyday term meaning “a crane”.

Noun

 * 1) a crane
 * 2)  a paper crane, the archetypical origami design
 * 3)  a pickaxe
 * 4) a  depicting a crane
 * 5)  white hair
 * 6) a decoration made of straws and reeds in the form of two cranes, used during the 14th year of the first month in the former town of Sakurajima, Kagoshima Prefecture
 * 1) a decoration made of straws and reeds in the form of two cranes, used during the 14th year of the first month in the former town of Sakurajima, Kagoshima Prefecture

Etymology 2
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From.

Speculatively, this could be analyzed as a compound of 🇰🇲, wherein This tsu may be the tsu in modern tsuru above.

Noun

 * 1)  a crane

Usage notes

 * This reading is now reserved for poetry.

Etymology 3
From.

Compare modern 🇨🇬.

Affix

 * 1) crane
 * 2) cranelike

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * る ( - [1])

Noun

 * 1) a crane

Derived terms

 * ,, to avoid confusion with

Etymology 1
Possibly a compound of 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) a crane
 * "ojp"
 * "ojp"
 * "ojp"

- 藻苅舟奧榜來良之妹之嶋形見之浦爾鶴翔所見



Etymology 2
The reading of modern.

In turn, from.