tsuru

Animals in Japanese / Names List / Starting with tsu つ

Translation

tsuru means "Crane" in English.
Sometimes tsuru doesn't mean the animal, see homonyms.

tsuru written with kanji is 鶴.
This is a jouyou kanji 常用漢字, taught in junior high, chuugakkou 中学校.
tsuru written with katakana is ツル.
tsuru written with hiragana is つる.
Romaji tsu ru
Hiraganaつる
Katakanaツル
Kanji 鶴
School Level 中

Homonyms & Similar Words

  • tsuru 釣る means "to fish" something, normally although not necessarily a fish, "to lure."
What is a homonym?

Trivia

  • According to the legends, if you fold one thousand paper cranes, you get a wish granted by a crane.[1]
Grus canadensis
What tsuru looks like.
© Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States
orizuru 折鶴
orizuru

Synonyms

Beware: some kanji that are difficult to handwrite are easy to type on the computer, which may skew the usage statistics.

Further Reading

Wikipedia: 鶴 (Crane_(bird))
  1. How Paper Cranes Became a Symbol of Healing in Japan - blog.nationalgeographic.org, accessed .
orizuru 折鶴.