いざよい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いざよい – see the following entries.

【猶予い】 [noun] a hesitation, a pause Alternative spelling 猶予

【十六夜】 [noun] Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon [noun] the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon (common time for viewing the harvest moon in the Japanese 月見 (tsukimi, “moon viewing”) festival) [noun] (by extension of the "16" sense, poetic) sixteen years old [noun] (by extension of the "16" sense, archaic) a bet of 16 銭 (sen) on a competition or game of chance [proper noun] a female given name

(This term, いざよい, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)