"しし" meaning in Japanese

See しし in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Shishi [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper}} しし • (Shishi)
  1. 獅子: the name of the lion dance 囃子 (hayashi, “musical accompaniment”) in various noh and kabuki plays; the first piece of music played in a 伎楽 (gigaku) performance (more commonly spelled 師子)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for しし meaning in Japanese (1.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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