霜柱
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Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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霜 | 柱 |
しも Grade: S |
はしら > ばしら Grade: 3 |
kun'yomi |
Etymology
[edit]Literally, “frost pillar”, 霜 (shimo, “frost”) + 柱 (hashira, “pillar”). The hashira changes to bashira as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]霜柱 or 霜柱 • (shimobashira)
Usage notes
[edit]As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 霜 read as しも
- Japanese terms spelled with 柱 read as はしら
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
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