籠目

Japanese

籠目 (kagome): a kagome lattice.
Kanji in this term
かご
Grade: S

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of (kago, basket) + (me, eye, hole).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

籠目 (hiragana かごめ, rōmaji kagome)

  1. A kagome lattice; an arrangement of laths composed of interlaced triangles such that each point where two laths cross has four neighboring points. Although called a lattice, it is more closely related to trihexagonal tiling than to a mathematical lattice.
  2. Short for 籠目籠目 (かごめかごめ) (kagome kagome): the "bird-in-the-cage"; a Japanese children's game, similar to English children's games, like tag and blind man's bluff.
  3. Short for 籠目紋 (かごめもん) (kagome mon): a kind of 家紋 (kamon, family crest) featuring the shape of a six-pointed star, like the Star of David, appearing in the intersections of a kagome lattice in the design.

Derived terms

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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