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• tanooki

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /təˈnʊkɪ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /tɑˈnuki/, /ˈtɑnuki/
• 韻: -ʊki, -uːki
• ハイフネーション: ta‧nuki

名詞

tanuki (plural tanuki or tanukis)

1. A raccoon dog, Nyctereutes viverrinus.

   Synonym: mangut

   • 2023 May 28, Nadia Asparouhova, “Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture”, in Wired‎, →ISSN:

     At my onboarding, I was told that one of GitHub's employees identified as a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog—this was fine.

2. (Japanese mythology) A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles.
3. The joining of a living bonsai tree to a piece of dead wood for aesthetic effect.

アナグラム

• Kaniut, Kutina, Anukit