Kaguya

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The protagonist of 赫映姫の物語 (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari, “The Tale of Princess Kaguya”), a mysterious girl from the moon, discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.
  2. Synonym of SELENE (“Japan’s second lunar orbiter spacecraft”).

Word forms

Kaguya

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 赫映, かぐや (Kaguya).

Synonyms

Kaguya-hime SELENE

Related words

Hiten
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