鶯 – vocab dash

鶯うぐいす

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Meanings

Noun

1. Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale (Usually kana)

Noun

No-adjective

2. greenish brown (Abbreviation)

Noun

Prefix

3. beautiful voice; woman with a beautiful voice

Other spellings

鴬うぐいすうぐいす

Kanji used

Kanji in other spellings

Pitch accent

うぐいす

Used in vocabulary

nightingale (flooring); method of laying floors to deliberately make a noise (like a nightingale's call) when walked across (security feature)

Noun

Lonicera gracilipes (species of honeysuckle)

Noun

Examples2

うぐいすが鳴ないているのが聞きこえた。

I heard a Japanese nightingale.

『うぐいす侍さむらい』人にん間げん愛あいとユーモア溢あふれる侍さむらい物もの語がたり。

"The Nightingale Samurai" is a samurai tale full of humanity and humour.