燕つばめ返がえし

noun

quickly reversed cut (sword technique)

A sword technique where the blade is quickly reversed to strike, named after the swallow's agile flight.

• 佐さ々さ木き小こ次じ郎ろうの燕つばめ返がえしは有ゆう名めいな剣けん技ぎだ。

  Sasaki Kojirō's Tsubame Gaeshi is a famous sword technique.

noun

swallow counter (judo technique); swallow flight reversal

A judo counter technique that mimics the swallow's sudden turn; also called 'swallow flight reversal'.

• 燕つばめ返がえしは柔じゅう道どうの返かえし技わざの一ひとつだ。

  Tsubame Gaeshi is one of the counter techniques in judo.

noun

swapping one's hand with the bottom row of the nearest wall (mahjong cheating)

A mahjong cheating technique where a player secretly swaps their hand with tiles from the bottom row of the nearest wall.

• 燕つばめ返がえしは麻雀まーじゃんのイカサマの一いっ種しゅで、手て牌はいを壁ぴー牌ぱいとすり替かえる。

  Tsubame Gaeshi is a type of mahjong cheating where you swap your hand with the wall tiles.

noun

completing a hand with an opponent's discarded riichi tile (mahjong)

In mahjong, completing a hand by taking an opponent's discarded tile after they declared riichi; considered a skillful or lucky move.

• リーチ者しゃの捨すて牌はいで燕つばめ返がえしを決きめた。

  I completed my hand with a Tsubame Gaeshi using the riichi declarer's discard.