tanuki

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /təˈnʊkɪ/    美 /tɑˈnuki/|/ˈtɑnuki/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A raccoon dog, Nyctereutes viverrinus.
    — At my onboarding, I was told that one of GitHub's employees identified as a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog—this was fine.
  2. A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles. Japanese
  3. The joining of a living bonsai tree to a piece of dead wood for aesthetic effect.

词形变化

tanuki plural tanukis plural tanooki alternative

词源

Borrowed from Japanese 狸(たぬき) (tanuki, “raccoon dog”).
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