俳句|はいくhaiku[0]heiban (flat)

JLPT N2approx.Common
Definitions
  1. nounhaiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
    これは芭蕉ばしょうの非常ひじょうに有名ゆうめいな俳句はいくです。↗
    This is a very famous haiku by Basho.
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym発句ほっくWritten発句(ほっく) is a literary term; it originally referred to the opening stanza of a renga sequence and survives mainly in historical or scholarly writing about haiku.

Use 俳句 for the poem in all ordinary contexts; reserve 発句 for literary, historical, or technical discussion, since it originally denoted the opening stanza of linked verse.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 日本にっぽんの短たん詩形しけい文芸ぶんげい形式けいしきの一ひとつ。近世きんせいに発達はったつした俳諧はいかいから近代きんだいになって分岐ぶんきした。五ご・七なな・五ごのモーラから成なる日本語にほんごの定型詩ていけいしであり、世界せかい最短さいたんの定型詩ていけいしとされる。
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