カエル

かえる

noun

frog

1. frog

A frog — a small jumping amphibian that lives in or near water. Usually written in katakana as カエル, though the kanji 蛙(かえる) also exists.

There is a frog in the pond.

Frogs croak when it rains.

When I was a child, I often caught frogs in the rice paddies.

Frogs are a familiar part of the rural Japanese landscape, especially in and around rice paddies.

井(い)の中(なか)の蛙(かわず): a frog in a well — someone with a narrow view of the world (uses the older reading かわず)

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