狸

Meaning

狸 centers on the tanuki, a specific animal often called a raccoon dog in English. The meaning extends loosely to raccoon due to visual similarity, but the core idea is the tanuki itself.

• 狸たぬき

  tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog

• 狐狸こり

  foxes and tanuki

• 屈狸くずり

  wolverine (Gulo gulo); glutton; carcajou

• 化け狸ばけだぬき

  supernatural tanuki (Japanese folklore)

• 古狸ふるだぬき

  old badger; veteran; oldtimer; schemer; old fox

• 同じ穴の狸おなじあなのたぬき

  (villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; raccoon dogs of the same hole

• 岩狸いわだぬき

  hyrax

• 捕らぬ狸の皮算用とらぬたぬきのかわざんよう

  counting one's chickens before they're hatched; counting raccoon dog skins before they have been caught

• 海狸かいり

  beaver

• 狐と狸の化かし合いきつねとたぬきのばかしあい

  two sly characters outfoxing each other; a fox and a raccoon dog fooling each other

• 狐狗狸こっくり

  kokkuri; divination technique similar to table turning and planchette

• 狐狗狸さんこっくりさん

  kokkuri; divination technique similar to table turning and planchette

• 狐狸妖怪こりようかい

  tricksters; deceivers; fey creatures; monsters; goblins

• 狸の腹鼓たぬきのはらつづみ

  patting the raccoon's belly (tesuji); tanuki drums his belly

• 狸の金玉八畳敷きたぬきのきんたまはちじょうじき

  something spread out widely; something taking a lot of space; eight jō of a raccoon dog's scrotum

• 狸囃子たぬきばやし

  tanuki drumming on their stomachs

• 狸寝入りたぬきねいり

  feigning sleep

• 狸汁たぬきじる

  tanuki soup; raccoon-dog soup

• 狸爺たぬきじじい

  cunning old man

• 狸菖蒲たぬきおやめ

  wooly frogsmouth (Philydrum lanuginosum); wooly waterlily

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