式部省

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
式	部	省
しき Grade: 3	ぶ Grade: 3	しょう Grade: 4
goon

式部 (literally “Ministry of Ceremonies”) +‎ 省 (“ministry”). 式部 seems to have been modeled after Chinese-styled ministry names with 部 (bu, “ministry”), in parallel with other similarly named ones such as 民部省 (Minbushō, literally “Ministry of Ministry of People”) and 兵部省 (Hyōbushō, literally “Ministry of Ministry of Soldiers”). Unlike in China, Korea and Vietnam, 部 has never been used to mean "ministry" and was merely fossilized in ministry names borrowed from Chinese, hence the apparent redundancy.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しきぶしょー [shìkíbúꜜshòò] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ɕi̥kʲibɯ̟ɕo̞ː]

Proper noun

式(しき)部(ぶ)省(しょう) • (Shikibushō) ^{←しきぶしゃう (Sikibusyau)?}

1. (historical, government) the Ministry of Ceremonial Affairs

   Synonym: 吏部 (Ribu)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
式	部	省
のり(の) > のん(の)		つかさ Grade: 4
Grade: 3	Grade: 3
jukujikun		kun'yomi

Kanji in this term
式	部	省
のり(の)		つかさ Grade: 4
Grade: 3	Grade: 3
jukujikun		kun'yomi

法 (nori, “law”) +‎ の (no, genitive marker) +‎ 司 (tsukasa, “position”)

Proper noun

式部(のりの)省(つかさ) or 式部(のんの)省(つかさ) • (Nori no Tsukasa or Non no Tsukasa) 

1. (historical, government) the Ministry of Ceremonial Affairs

See also

• 八(はっ)省(しょう) (Hasshō)