大根役者
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Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 大 | 根 | 役 | 者 |
| だい Grade: 1 |
こん Grade: 3 |
やく Grade: 3 |
しゃ Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi | |||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 大根役者 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 大根 (daikon, “Chinese radish”) + 役者 (yakusha, “actor”).[1][2]
Derivation unknown. Possibly from the way that daikon as a food may be considered unsophisticated and crude; from the way that daikon are white (白い shiroi), alluding to the term 素人 (shirōto, “amateur; hack”); or from a well-known witticism that no matter how much daikon one eats, it never causes food poisoning / is worth notice (hinging upon the verb 当たる (ataru), meaning either “to hit the mark” / “to be worth notice”, or “to cause food poisoning”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]大根役者 • (daikon yakusha)
References
[edit]- ^ 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 2.2 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
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