mikado

See also: Mikado and mikádó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

Noun

mikado (plural mikados)

1. (historical) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan

   The mikados of Japan are its emperors.

   Synonym: tenno

3. a game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack

   Synonym: pick-up sticks

4. a fabric having a stiff twill weave

Quotations

• 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado

  Our great Mikado, virtuous man,

  When he to rule our land began,

  Resolved to try a plan whereby

  Young men might best be steadied.

Related terms

• Chrysanthemum Throne

Translations

emperor of Japan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天皇 (zh) (tiānhuáng), 皇帝 (zh) (huángdì), 帝 (zh) (dì)

• Danish: mikado c (archaic)
• Dutch: Japanse keizer m, mikado (nl) m
• French: empereur japonais m, mikado (fr) m
• Hungarian: mikádó
• Japanese: 帝 (ja) (みかど, mikado), 御門 (みかど, mikado), 天皇 (ja) (てんのう, tennō)
• Korean: 천황 (ko) (cheonhwang) (天皇 (ko)), 일왕 (irwang) (Korea under Japanese rule) (日王)

• Malay: mikado
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikado m

  Nynorsk: mikado m

• Romanian: mikado (ro) m
• Russian: мика́до (ru) m (mikádo)
• Vietnamese: Ngự Môn (御門), Nhật hoàng (日皇)

a game of skill

• Danish: mikado
• Dutch: mikado (nl) m
• Hungarian: mikádó, marokkó

• Romanian: mikado (ro) n
• Swedish: plockepinn (sv) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} imperator, ^{(please verify)} mikado
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} imperator (la)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} emperador (es), ^{(please verify)} micado

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 御門.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kaːˌdoː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

Noun

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. mikado, pick-up sticks (game of skill)

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ˌmiˈkaː.doː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do

Noun

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. (historical) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Japanese みかど (mikado).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈkado/
• Hyphenation: mi‧ka‧do
• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

mikado (accusative singular mikadon, plural mikadoj, accusative plural mikadojn)

1. mikado

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ka.do/

Noun

mikado m (plural mikados)

1. (historical) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan
3. mikado (game of skill)

Further reading

• “mikado” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Japanese

Romanization

mikado

1. Rōmaji transcription of みかど

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈkado/, [miˈkaðo]

Noun

mikado m (plural mikados)

1. mikado