尾

Meaning

尾 centers on the rear or trailing part of something: an animal's tail, the end of a process, or the lower slope of a mountain. The counter-for-fish sense is a natural extension of counting by tails.

• 尾お
  N2

  tail (of an animal); cauda

• 尻尾しっぽ
  N3

  tail (of an animal)

• 語尾ごび

  (inflectional) ending of a word

• 尾根おね

  (mountain) ridge

• 交尾こうび

  copulation (among animals); mating; treading; covering; serving

• 末尾まつび

  end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)

• 追尾ついび

  following; pursuing; tracking; shadowing; tailing; chasing

• 後尾こうび

  the rear

• 尾行びこう

  shadow; tail; following

• 尾張おわり

  Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)

• 首尾しゅび

  beginning and end; from beginning to end

• 船尾せんび

  stern

• 尾翼びよく

  tail (of an aircraft); empennage; tail assembly

• 交尾むつるむ

  to copulate (animals); to mate

• 尾羽おは

  tail and feathers

• 尾羽おばね

  tail feathers

• 徹頭徹尾てっとうてつび

  thoroughly; through and through; out and out; in every way; from beginning to end; from start to finish

• 尾長おなが

  azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyana)

• 鳩尾みぞおち

  pit of the stomach; solar plexus

• 尾花おばな

  (ear of) Japanese pampas grass

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