鉄砲

Japanese
Kanji in this term
鉄 砲
てつ > てっ
Grade: 3		 ほう > ぽう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

鉄砲 (hiragana てっぽう, rōmaji teppō)

  1. gun
  2. (sumo) teppo, wooden pillar used in the teppo-oshi exercise
  3. (Kansai, slang) pufferfish, 河 (ふ)豚 (ぐ) (fugu), punning on 当 (あ)たる (ataru, “poisoned or shot”). I.e., a pufferfish is something that can poison you, just as a gun is something that can shoot you.

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