だるまさんが転んだ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
転
ころ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
だるまさんが轉んだ (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of だるまさんが転んだ – see the following entry.
【達磨だるまさんが転ころんだ】
[noun] daruma-san ga koronda ("Daruma fell over"), a Japanese children's game equivalent to the Western "statues"
【達磨さんが転んだ】
[interjection] The 10-syllable interjection used to count down, syllable by syllable, in daruma-san ga koronda
(This term, だるまさんが転んだ, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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