shuriken

English

Etymology

From Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), from Middle Chinese 手 (ʃúw "hand") 裏 (lí "inside") 劍 (kjæ̀m "sword").

Pronunciation

• enPR: sho͞or'ĭk-ən, IPA^(key): /ˈʃuː.ɹɪ.kən/, enPR: sho͝or'ĭk-ən, IPA^(key): /ˈʃʊə.ɹɪ.kən/
  • (US, Canada, also) enPR: shûr'ĭk-ən, IPA^(key): /ˈʃɝ.ɪ.kən/
• Rhymes: -uːɹɪkən, -ʊəɹɪkən, -ɜːɹɪkən

Noun

shuriken (plural shurikens or shuriken)

1. A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).

   Synonyms: ninja star, throwing star

   Hyponym: shaken

Translations

a ninja weapon

• Arabic: شُورِيكِن m (šūrīkin), شُورِيكِين m (šūrīkīn)
• Armenian: սուրիկեն (suriken)
• Bulgarian: шурике́н m (šurikén)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手裡劍／手里剑 (zh) (shǒulǐjiàn), 手裏劍／手里剑 (zh) (shǒulǐjiàn)

• Esperanto: ŝurikeno
• Finnish: shuriken, heittotähti
• Hebrew: שוריקן (he) m (shuriken)
• Hungarian: dobócsillag, suriken (hu)
• Ido: shuriken
• Indonesian: syuriken
• Japanese: 手裏剣 (ja) (しゅりけん, shuriken)
• Korean: 슈리켄 (syuriken), 수리검 (surigeom)
• Marathi: शुरिकेन (śuriken)
• Mongolian: шүрикен (šüriken)
• Persian: شوریکن (šuriken)
• Portuguese: shuriken m or f
• Russian: сюрике́н (ru) m (sjurikén)
• Swedish: kaststjärna c
• Thai: ชูริเคน (chooríkayn), ดาวกระจาย
• Vietnamese: phi tiêu, thủ lí kiếm

Japanese

Romanization

shuriken

1. Rōmaji transcription of しゅりけん

Portuguese

Noun

shuriken m or f (plural shurikens or shuriken)

1. shuriken (throwing blade with multiple points used by ninjas)