源氏

Japanese

From 源 (gen, on-reading of minamoto, literally “fountainhead, source”) +‎ 氏 (-shi, “family”).

源(げん)氏(じ) • (Genji)

any family or clan with a common surname of 源 (Minamoto)
Synonym: 源家 (Genke)
(poetry) Short for 源氏行 (Genji-kō, “a form of 連歌 (renga, “linked verse”) where sixty verses are written on a piece of paper folded in three”).
Short for 源氏香 (Genji-kō, “an incense-comparing game, with five sorts of incense”).
(painting) Short for 源氏絵 (Genji-e, “paintings based on the events of the Tale of Genji; paintings depicting the Heian era in general”).
Short for 源氏織り (a type of fabric woven with intermittently gold wrapped thread, woven in Kyoto in the Edo period).
(historical, colloquial) a maidservant in a noble household
Synonym: 奥女中 (okujochū)
(archaic women's speech) Synonym of 夕顔 (yūgao): the common moonflower or moonvine, Ipomoea alba
(archaic women's speech) Synonym of 茄子 (nasu): the eggplant, Solanum melongena
(slang) a corrupt rickshaw puller associated with a brothel who brings in customers for them, and expects a high fee

源(げん)氏(じ) • (Genji)

Short for 源氏物語 (Genji Monogatari): The Tale of Genji, a novel by Murasaki Shikibu
Short for 光源氏 (Hikaru Genji): the titular protagonist of the novel
a placename
a surname

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN