いわ
Meanings
Noun
1. rock; boulder
2. crag; cliff
3. anchor
Kanji used
boulder
Pitch accent
Top 2400
Used in vocabulary (64 in total)
rocky area; rocky tract; rocky stretch (of a climb); wall (of rock)
rocky mountain
bare rock; rock surface; rock face
shade of a rock
monolith; large slab of rock
halite; rock salt
cavern; grotto
rock door (to a cave)
water trickling from rocks
Iwate (prefecture)
among rocks
edge or corner of a stone
cavern; grotto
Iwashiro (former province located in the west of present-day Fukushima Prefecture)
rock tripe (edible lichen used as medication in Korea, China and Japan)
rock climbing
Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus)
natural mineral pigments
Selaginella tamariscina (species of spikemoss)
stone wall; natural stone wall
wild harvested nori; jelly lichen (Collema sp.)
stone-like socle (used as the base for a Buddhist statue)
rocky outcrop; jumble of rocks
belt used for back support after fifth month of pregnancy
natural mineral pigments
Iwagaki oyster (Crassostrea nippona)
rock paintings; rock art
Iwagaki oyster (Crassostrea nippona)
pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)
where there is a will, there is a way
where there is a will, there is a way
rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
Epigaea asiatica
alpine gesneriad (Conandron ramondioides)
alpine gesneriad (Conandron ramondioides)
rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)
keiskei fetterbush (Leucothoe keiskei); doghobble; dog hobble
Chinese dunce cap (species of succulent plant, Orostachys iwarenge)
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
Pyrrosia tricuspis (species of felt fern)
Selaginella tamariscina (species of spikemoss)
mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus); Rocky Mountain goat
creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)
Kuroiwa's ground gecko (Goniurosaurus kuroiwae); Ryukyu eyelid gecko
roseroot (Rhodiola rosea)
alpine accentor (Prunella collaris)
Pyrrosia tricuspis (species of felt fern)
Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus); kha-nyou; rat-squirrel
chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar)
Marphysa sanguinea (species of eunicid worm)
Iwata Station (Yamaguchi)
Examples (25 in total)
Mary was sitting on a rock.
The waves washed upon the rocks.
A rock fell from above.