Etymology

yosuzume

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Today it means: A bird yokai said to appear at night to travellers on mountain roads. Full definition →

Japanese 夜雀
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from夜雀
  2. English todayyosuzume

Japanese 夜雀 (literally “night sparrow”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.