竹蜻蛉
Japanese
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| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 竹 | 蜻 | 蛉 |
| たけ Grade: 1 |
Hyōgai | Hyōgai |
| kun'yomi | irregular | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 竹とんぼ |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 竹 (take, “bamboo”) + 蜻蛉 (tonbo, “dragonfly”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]竹蜻蛉 • (take tonbo)
- a bamboo-copter, a helicopter toy, consisting of a short bamboo or wooden dowel with a propeller affixed to one end, that flies when the dowel is spun and released
Usage notes
[edit]Sometimes spelled 竹とんぼ, due to the complexity and relative rarity of the kanji spelling of 蜻蛉 for tonbo.
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 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
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 竹 read as たけ
- Japanese terms spelled with 蜻
- Japanese terms spelled with 蛉
- Japanese terms read with irregular kanji readings
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms with multiple readings
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji
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