雛

Meaning

雛 centers on a young bird: a chick, squab, or duckling. The doll sense is a figurative extension, likening a small, delicate doll to a baby bird.

• 雛ひな
  N1

  young bird; chick; fledgling

• 雛ひよこ
  N2

  young bird; chick; fledgling

• 雛人形ひなにんぎょう
  N3

  hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival

• 雛形ひながた

  model; miniature; pattern

• お雛様おひなさま

  display of dolls during Hinamatsuri

• 雛菊ひなぎく

  daisy (Bellis perennis); English daisy

• 雛鳥ひなどり

  chick; baby bird

• 伏竜鳳雛ふくりょうほうすう

  gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel

• 内裏雛だいりびな

  festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress

• 女雛めびな

  Empress doll (in display with Emperor doll)

• 巣雛すひな

  nestling

• 木目込み雛きめこみびな

  kimekomi doll

• 東洋雛蝙蝠とうようひなこうもり

  Asian particolored bat (Vespertilio sinensis)

• 流し雛ながしびな

  paper dolls floated downriver on March 3

• 男雛おびな

  Emperor hina doll

• 育雛いくすう

  brooding

• 育雛器いくすうき

  breeder

• 臥竜鳳雛がりょうほうすう

  gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel

• 雛あられひなあられ

  sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival

• 雛の錫杖ひなのしゃくじょう

  Burmannia championii (species of flowering plant)

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