鳥居

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Chinese

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bird reside
trad. (鳥居)
simp. (鸟居)
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Etymology

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Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鳥居 (torii).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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鳥居

  1. torii (symbolic gate to a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
とり
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kun'yomi
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鳥居 (torii): A typical red torii, as seen at the Ryōsen-ji Buddhist temple in Nara.

Etymology

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Compound of (tori, bird) +‎ (i, abode).[1][2] From old legends about birds possessed by kami and sitting on tree branches.[1]

First cited to a text from 922 CE.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(とり)() (toriiとりゐ (toriwi)?

  1. a torii: a symbolic gate to a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple
    Synonym: 華表 (kahyō)
  2. a similar roofless gate to a residence
  3. the top bar of a railing
  4. the top horizontal bar of a balance scale for measuring weight

Proper noun

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(とり)() (Toriiとりゐ (Toriwi)?

  1. a surname

Descendants

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  • Chinese: 鳥居鸟居 (niǎojū)
  • English: torii
  • Korean: 도리이 (dorii)
  • Russian: то́рии (tórii)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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