葦

Meaning

葦 centers on tall, slender water plants: reeds and bullrushes. The meaning is straightforward and concrete, referring to these specific wetland plants.

• 葦あし
  N1

  common reed (Phragmites australis)

• 葦原あしはら

  reed bed

• ヨーロッパ葦切ヨーロッパよしきり

  Eurasian reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)

• 一葦いちい

  one reed

• 一葦の水いちいのみず

  narrow strip of water

• 丘葦鴨おかよしがも

  gadwall (Anas strepera)

• 大葦切おおよしきり

  great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)

• 小葦切こよしきり

  black-browed reed warbler (Acrocephalus bistrigiceps)

• 星葦毛ほしあしげ

  dapple gray (horse coat color); dapple grey

• 枯葦かれあし

  withered reeds (esp. reeds that have withered in the winter)

• 白葦毛しらあしげ

  flea-bitten gray (horse coat color); flea-bitten grey

• 葦の髄から天井のぞくよしのずいからてんじょうのぞく

  to have a narrow view of things; to look at the ceiling through a reed

• 葦の髄から天井を覗くよしのずいからてんじょうをのぞく

  to have a narrow view of things; to peek at the ceiling through the pith of a reed

• 葦五位よしごい

  yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)

• 葦原中国あしはらのなかつくに

  Japan

• 葦原雀よしわらすずめ

  reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)

• 葦手あしで

  ashide; painting of a waterside using characters of a poem to represent reeds, rocks, birds, etc. (Heian period)

• 葦田鶴あしたず

  crane (bird)

• 葦登よしのぼり

  freshwater goby (any fish of genus Rhinogobius)

• 葦笛あしぶえ

  reed pipe; reed flute

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