いざよひ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いざよひ – see the following entries.
【猶予いざよい】
[noun] a hesitation, a pause
Alternative spelling
猶予
【十六夜いざよい】
[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, いざよひ (izayofi), is a historical kana spelling of the above terms.)
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