まな板

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まな板

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Cutting board

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Alternative spellings
俎俎板真魚板

Compound of 真魚 (mana, “edible fish”) +‎ 板 (ita, “board”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

The 俎 kanji spelling comes from Chinese 俎 (zǔ).

まな板(いた) • (manaita)

a chopping board, a cutting board
(slang) a girl with a flat chest (compare the English expression flat as a board)

俎板木(まないたぎ) (manaitagi): a board shaped like a cutting board, attached to the top of a sluice gate and used to raise and lower the gate

俎(まな)板(いた)に釘打(くぎう)つよう (manaita ni kugi utsu yō): “like pounding nails into a cutting board” → to care about things that don't matter, from the sense that a cutting board is a single piece of wood and does not need nailing
まな板(いた)に載(の)せる (manaita ni noseru): “to put on the cutting board” → to make something or someone the topic of conversation, often implying criticism
まな板(いた)の鯉(こい) (manaita no koi): “[like] a carp on a cutting board” → done for, one's goose is cooked
まな板(いた)の魚(うお) (manaita no uo): “[like] a fish on a cutting board” → done for, one's goose is cooked
俎(まな)板(いた)の上(うえ)に餌(えさ)を拾(ひろ)う鳥(とり) (manaita no ue ni esa o hirō tori): “a bird picking up food from a cutting board” → a metaphor for doing something while being oblivious of the danger
俎(まな)板(いた)を机(つくえ) (manaita o tsukue): “[using] a cutting board as a desk” → to use something for an inappropriate purpose

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN