For pronunciation and definitions of <span class="searchmatch">ちく</span><span class="searchmatch">ば</span><span class="searchmatch">の</span><span class="searchmatch">とも</span> – see the following entry. (This term, <span class="searchmatch">ちく</span><span class="searchmatch">ば</span><span class="searchmatch">の</span><span class="searchmatch">とも</span> (chikubanotomo), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)...
chikuba no tomo Rōmaji transcription of <span class="searchmatch">ちく</span><span class="searchmatch">ば</span><span class="searchmatch">の</span><span class="searchmatch">とも</span>...
“childhood sweethearts”, literally “green plums and bamboo horse”). 竹(<span class="searchmatch">ちく</span>)馬(<span class="searchmatch">ば</span>)<span class="searchmatch">の</span>友(<span class="searchmatch">とも</span>) • (chikuba no tomo) (literary) childhood friend 幼(おさな)なじみ (osananajimi)...
IPA (key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵ maː¹³ t͡siː⁵⁵ jɐu̯¹³/ 竹馬之友 childhood friend → Japanese: (calque) 竹(<span class="searchmatch">ちく</span>)馬(<span class="searchmatch">ば</span>)<span class="searchmatch">の</span>友(<span class="searchmatch">とも</span>) (chikuba no tomo) Korean: 죽마고우(竹馬故友) (jungmagou)...
(alternative reading hiragana <span class="searchmatch">ちく</span><span class="searchmatch">ば</span>, rōmaji chikuba) synonym of 幼時 (yōji, “childhood”) (time when one is a child) 竹(<span class="searchmatch">ちく</span>)馬(<span class="searchmatch">ば</span>)<span class="searchmatch">の</span>友(<span class="searchmatch">とも</span>) (chikuba no tomo) 竹馬 • (jungma)...
volume 21, page 52: 「猪(ちょ)口(こ)才(ざい)な、こん畜(<span class="searchmatch">ちく</span>)生(しょう)め」米(よね)友(<span class="searchmatch">とも</span>)<span class="searchmatch">は</span>その大(おお)猿(さる)を片(かた)手(て)で掴(つか)んで群(ぐん)猿(さる)<span class="searchmatch">の</span>中(なか)へ投(な)げ込(こ)んで “Chokozai na, kon chikushō...
公(こう)園(えん)に子(こ)供(<span class="searchmatch">ども</span>)たちがばたばた駆(か)けた。 Kōen ni kodomotachi ga batabata kaketa. In the park children ran noisily. repetitively, repeatedly, in succession 家(か)畜(<span class="searchmatch">ちく</span>)がばたばたと死(し)んでいった。...