踊

Meaning

踊 centers on lively, rhythmic movement: jumping, dancing, leaping, or skipping. All the given meanings share the idea of energetic, upward motion.

• 踊るおどる
  N4

  to dance (orig. a hopping dance)

• 踊りおどり
  N4

  dance

• 舞踊ぶよう

  dancing; dance

• 盆踊りぼんおどり
  N1

  Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance

• 踊り子おどりこ

  dancer (usu. female)

• 踊り場おどりば

  place for dancing; dance floor

• 舞踊団ぶようだん

  dance troupe

• 踊らされるおどらされる

  to be manipulated; to be made to dance

• 会議は踊るかいぎはおどる

  conference with much socializing but little real progress; the congress dances (but doesn't progress)

• 念仏踊りねんぶつおどり

  Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing

• 手踊りておどり

  "dancing" with hands and arms from a seated position; dancing empty-handed

• 日本舞踊にほんぶよう

  traditional Japanese dance

• 日本踊にほんおどり

  traditional Japanese dance

• 歌舞伎舞踊かぶきぶよう

  kabuki dance

• 歌舞伎踊りかぶきおどり

  early kabuki dance

• 民俗舞踊みんぞくぶよう

  folk dance; ethnic dance

• 民踊みんよう

  folk dance

• 現代舞踊げんだいぶよう

  contemporary dance; modern dance

• 田植え踊りたうえおどり

  refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month

• 盆踊り唄ぼんおどりうた

  Bon Festival dance song

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