薙
薙

mow down (the enemy)

16 strokesGrade 9

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Kun

な.ぐなぎか.る

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Common Words

薙ぎ払うなぎ払うなぎはらうTransitiveGodan verbFreq #13302
1

to mow down; to cut down; to slash (horizontally); to make a clean sweep; to sweep away; to brush away

薙ぐなぐTransitiveGodan verbFreq #16660
1

to cut down (grass, etc.; by swinging a sickle, scythe, etc.); to mow

なぎ倒す薙ぎ倒すなぎたおすTransitiveGodan verbFreq #18794
1

to mow down; to cut down; to knock down

Examples
あらしでその村はなぎ倒された。
The storm laid the village flat.
2

to defeat; to beat

横薙ぎ横なぎよこなぎNounFreq #21647
1

sweeping sideways; mowing down

薙刀長刀なぎなた眉尖刀NounFreq #23957
1

naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive)

2

Word usually written using kana alone

naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata

草薙の剣草薙剣くさなぎのつるぎNounFreq #123754
1

Kusanagi no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia); grass-mowing sword

薙刀術長刀術なぎなたじゅつNounFreq #151221
1

art of using a naginata

みずなぎどり水薙鳥水凪鳥ミズナギドリNounUsually kanaFreq #202726
1

petrel (esp. petrels of family Procellariidae)

おおみずなぎどり大水薙鳥大水凪鳥オオミズナギドリNounUsually kanaFreq #271691
1

streaked shearwater (species of seabird, Calonectris leucomelas)

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