辻

Meaning

辻 centers on a place where paths meet: a crossing, crossroad, or street corner. It is a Japanese kokuji created to express this specific intersection concept.

• 辻つじ

  crossroads; crossing; intersection; street corner

• 辻褄つじつま
  N1

  coherence; consistency

• 辻堂つじどう

  wayside shrine

• 辻斬りつじぎり

  attacking a passerby with a sword (to test its sharpness or one's skill); samurai who tries out his sword on a passerby

• 四辻よつつじ

  crossroads; intersection; crossway; carrefour

• 辻説法つじせっぽう

  street preaching

• 辻が花つじがはな

  cloth-dyeing technique incorporating flower patterns

• 辻便所つじべんじょ

  public lavatory

• 辻占つじうら

  slip of paper with a fortune-telling message; street fortune-teller

• 辻占煎餅つじうらせんべい

  Japanese fortune cookie

• 辻取りつじとり

  taking a wife by kidnapping a woman passing by on the road

• 辻君つじぎみ

  streetwalker; nightwalker; prostitute

• 辻噺つじばなし

  stories (esp. war stories) or lectures told by someone near a road or temple while begging for money

• 辻店つじみせ

  street stall

• 辻強盗つじごうとう

  highwayman

• 辻待ちつじまち

  vehicle waiting to be hired

• 辻札つじふだ

  sign on a post (esp. containing information about a sight, warnings, congratulations, etc.)

• 辻番つじばん

  town-watches from the Edo period

• 辻相撲つじずもう

  amateur wrestling on a street corner or in an empty field (esp. in autumn)

• 辻社つじやしろ

  small shrine built at a crossroads

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