鎧通し
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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鎧 | 通 |
よろい Jinmeiyō |
とお > どお Grade: 2 |
kun'yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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鎧通 |

Etymology
[edit]Compound of 鎧 (yoroi, “armor”) + 通し (tōshi, “passing one thing through another”).[1] The tōshi changes to dōshi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]鎧通し • (yoroidōshi)
- (weaponry) a straight and stout short sword or dagger used for thrusting, intended to pierce armor
- Synonym: 馬手差 (metezashi)
- (archery) an armor-piercing arrowhead
- Synonym of 目木 (megi, “Japanese barberry, Berberis thunbergii”)
See also
[edit]- (arrowhead, in general): 鏃 (yajiri)
References
[edit]- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →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
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 鎧 read as よろい
- Japanese terms spelled with 通 read as とお
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Weapons
- ja:Archery
- ja:Barberry family plants