お八つ
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 八 |
| や Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
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| 御八 御八つ おやつ |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of お (o, honorific prefix) + 八 (ya, “eight”) + つ (tsu, nominalizing suffix).[1][2] Times in the old Japanese timekeeping system were labelled using either the animals of the Chinese zodiac or numbers descending from 9 to 4, once from noon and again from midnight. The time when おやつ (oyatsu) were eaten was labelled using the number 8, as 昼八つ (hiruyatsu, “8 in the daytime”).
First cited to a text from 1688.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- [from 1688] (historical) in the old timekeeping system, the period of roughly 2:00 until 4:00, both AM and PM
- [from 1703] (by extension) a snack eaten at around 3:00 pm
- Synonym: お三時 (o-sanji)
- (more generally) a snack between meals
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- 2003, 新和英大辞典 (New Japanese-English Dictionary), Fifth Edition, Tōkyō: Kenkyūsha, →ISBN
- 1998, ハイブリッド新辞林 (Hybrid Shinjirin), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN