煙管

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Chinese

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cigarette; tobacco; smoke
to take care (of); to control; to manage
to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; tube; pipe
 
trad. (煙管/菸管) /
simp. (烟管)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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煙管

  1. smoke pipe or tube; flue header

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Japanese

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煙管 (kiseru): a traditional Japanese smoking pipe.
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Kanji in this term
きせる
Grade: S Grade: 4
jukujikun

Etymology 1

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From Khmer ខ្សៀរ (khsiěrô) or ខ្សៀ (khsiě, a pipe for smoking).[1][2] Tobacco trade from Europe first went through Southeast Asia before reaching Japan. One source[3] suggests that the Khmer word itself was a borrowing from Spanish que sorber or Portuguese que sorver, “that which is sucked upon”.

Variant readings include kiseri and kisero,[1] although these are rare.

The kanji spelling 煙管 is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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煙管(きせる) or 煙管(キセル) or 煙管(キセリ) or 煙管(キセロ) (kiseru or kiseri or kisero

  1. a tobacco pipe with a metal stem
  2. (slang) a way of cheating on one's train fare
    The train rider purchases two tickets, one for a short distance at the start of the journey, and one for a short distance at the end of the journey. In this way, the rider can avoid having to pay full fare for the total distance traveled.
    A pun on the way that there is (kane, metal; money) on both ends, but not in the middle, similar to a kiseru pipe.
  3. (slang) a way of buying votes for an election
    The vote buyer pays the voter part before the election and part after (assuming the election buyer wins).
    A pun on the way that there is (kane, metal; money) on both ends, but not in the middle, similar to a kiseru pipe.
  4. (obsolete) during the Edo period, someone who sold slow match to theater-goers to use to light their pipes
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Verb

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煙管(きせる)する (kiseru surusuru (stem 煙管(きせる) (kiseru shi), past 煙管(きせる)した (kiseru shita))

  1. (slang) to cheat on one's train fare
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Etymology 2

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煙管 (enkan): the red horizontal lines are the fire tubes.
Kanji in this term
えん
Grade: S
かん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 煙管 (MC 'en kwanX, literally “smoke + tube”). Compare modern Mandarin 煙管烟管 (yānguǎn).

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Noun

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(えん)(かん) (enkanえんくわん (enkwan)?

  1. a fire tube or boiler tube in a steam engine: a pipe that conducts hot gasses from combustion to heat the boiler
  2. a smokestack or chimney
  3. a tobacco pipe with a metal stem (same as above; kiseru reading more common)
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 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 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Suzuki, Tatsuya (1999 November) 喫煙伝来史の研究 (Kitsuen Denraishi no Kenkyū, “Research into the History of the Introduction of Smoking”)[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shibunkaku, →ISBN, retrieved 2013-06-06
  4. 4.0 4.1 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