雨男

Japanese

Kanji in this term
雨	男
あめ Grade: 1	おとこ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a̠me̞ o̞to̞ko̞]

Noun

雨(あめ)男(おとこ) • (ame otoko) 

1. A man whose presence always seems to bring rain

See also

• 雨男 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• 雨女(あめおんな) (ame onna): a woman whose presence always seems to bring rain
• 雪女(ゆきおんな) (yuki onna): a snow spirit; spirit of woman who perished out in the snow during the winter months.
• 雪男(ゆきおとこ) (yuki otoko): abominable snowman (modern calque from English, not related to the mythology of the 雪女)