翁

Meaning

翁 centers on an elderly man worthy of respect: a venerable, dignified old man.

• 翁おきな

  old man; venerable gentleman

• 信天翁あほうどり

  albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)

• 不倒翁ふとうおう

  tumbler; self-righting doll

• 人間万事塞翁が馬にんげんばんじさいおうがうま

  inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable

• 仙翁せんのう

  lychnis (Lychnis senno)

• 信天翁しんてんおう

  albatross

• 塞翁が馬さいおうがうま

  the future is unpredictable; inscrutable are the ways of heaven; the irony of fate

• 小信天翁こあほうどり

  Laysan albatross (Diomedea immutabilis)

• 村翁そんおう

  village elder

• 渡信天翁わたりあほうどり

  wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans)

• 煤色信天翁すすいろあほうどり

  sooty albatross (Phoebetria fusca)

• 白頭翁はくとうおう

  windflower; anemone

• 竹取翁の物語たけとりのおきなのものがたり

  Taketori-no-Okina no Monogatari (alternate name for Taketori Monogatari: The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)

• 翁の面おきなのめん

  old man's mask

• 翁媼おうおう

  old man and old woman; elderly man and elderly woman

• 翁恵比須おきなえびす

  Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

• 翁戎貝おきなえびすがい

  Beyrich's slit shell (species of sea snail, Pleurotomaria beyrichii)

• 翁貝おきながい

  lantern shell

• 老翁ろうおう

  old man

• 阿翁あおう

  father-in-law (of a woman)

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