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木漏れ日

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Japanese

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: S
ひ > び
Grade: 1
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
木漏日
木洩れ日
木洩日
木洩れ陽
木曳れ陽

Compound of (ko, tree, ancient combining form of modern ki) +‎ 漏れ (more, leaking, coming through, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 漏れる moreru, “to leak, to come through”) +‎ (hi, sun; sunlight).[1][2] The hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

木漏れ日 (komorebi): sunlight streaming through the trees.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()()() (komorebi

  1. sunlight filtering through trees

References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 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

Further reading

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