にな

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of にな – see the following entry.
【蜷】H
[noun] [from early 900s] (archaic or dialectal) synonym of 川蜷 (kawanina, “melanian snail (Semisulcospira libertina)”)
[noun] [from 1184] (archaic, possibly obsolete) the use of a 蜷結び (ninamusubi, “kind of decorative knot for strings”)
Alternative spelling
河貝子
(This term, にな (nina), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as にな, see Category:Japanese kanji read as にな.
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