千羽鶴

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 千羽鶴 is read as せんばづる and is a noun for a set or display of one thousand folded paper cranes.
• Basic usage: Folding the cranes appears in 千羽鶴を折る, while displaying them appears in 千羽鶴が飾られる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A collective expression
  • It does not name one paper crane; it treats the many cranes folded and gathered by people as one collective work.
• Difference from 折り鶴
  • Compared with a single origami crane or paper cranes generally, this word specifically denotes the thousand-crane collection.