狐火
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- a mysterious pale fire often seen in the fields and mountains at night from winter to early spring: will o' the wisp, foxfire
- kabuki props designed to imitate will o' the wisps
Etymology
Compound from Japanese 狐 (fox) + Japanese 火 (fire, w).
Origin
Japanese
火
Gloss
fire, w
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
火
Emoji
☀️ 🌋 🌞 🐉 🐲 🔥 🕯️ 🚒 🧯
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ケープ狐 Japanese
- チベットスナギツネ Japanese
- ヒトカゲ Japanese
- フェネック狐 Japanese
- ブランフォード狐 Japanese
- 不知火 Japanese
- 檜 Japanese
- 火 Japanese
- 火の鳥 Japanese
- 火加減 Japanese
- 火口 Japanese
- 火影 Japanese
- 火神 Japanese
- 火花 Japanese
- 火鉢 Japanese
- 火食い鳥 Japanese
- 火鼠 Japanese
- 炎 Japanese
- 炭火 Japanese
- 焰 Japanese
- 燹 Japanese
- 牝狐 Japanese
- 狐 Japanese
- 狐塚 Japanese
- 狐猿 Japanese
- 篝火 Japanese
- 葦火 Japanese
- 蛍火 Japanese
- 野火 Japanese
- 陽炎 Japanese
- 雄狐 Japanese
- 鬼火 Japanese
- *poy Proto-Japonic