English
Etymology
From Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), from Middle Chinese 手 (ʃúw "hand") + 裏 (lí "inside") + 劍 (kjæ̀m "sword").
Pronunciation
- enPR: sho͞or'ĭk-ən, IPA(key): /ˈʃuː.ɹɪ.kən/, enPR: sho͝or'ĭk-ən, IPA(key): /ˈʃʊə.ɹɪ.kən/
- (US, Canada, also) enPR: shûr'ĭk-ən, IPA(key): /ˈʃɝ.ɪ.kən/
- Rhymes: -uːɹɪkən, -ʊəɹɪkən, -ɜːɹɪkən
Noun
shuriken (plural shurikens or shuriken)
- A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).
- Synonyms: ninja star, throwing star
- Hyponym: shaken
Translations
a ninja weapon
- Arabic: شُورِيكِن m (šūrīkin), شُورِيكِين m (šūrīkīn)
- Armenian: սուրիկեն (suriken)
- Bengali: শুরিকেন (śuriken)
- Bulgarian: шурике́н m (šurikén)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 手裡劍 / 手里剑 (zh) (shǒulǐjiàn), 手裏劍 / 手里剑 (zh) (shǒulǐjiàn)
- Esperanto: ŝurikeno
- Finnish: shuriken, heittotähti
- Hebrew: שוריקן (he) m (shuriken)
- Hungarian: dobócsillag, suriken (hu)
- Ido: shuriken
- Indonesian: syuriken
- Japanese: 手裏剣 (ja) (しゅりけん, shuriken)
- Korean: 슈리켄 (syuriken), 수리검 (surigeom)
- Marathi: शुरिकेन (śuriken)
- Mongolian: шүрикен (šüriken)
- Persian: شوریکن (šuriken)
- Portuguese: shuriken m or f
- Russian: сюрике́н (ru) m (sjurikén)
- Swedish: kaststjärna c
- Thai: ชูริเคน (chooríkayn), ดาวกระจาย
- Vietnamese: phi tiêu, thủ lí kiếm
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Japanese
Romanization
shuriken
- Rōmaji transcription of しゅりけん
Portuguese
Noun
shuriken m or f (plural shurikens or shuriken)
- shuriken (throwing blade with multiple points used by ninjas)