鼾掻

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼾	掻
くつち Hyōgai	か(き) Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
鼾搔 (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms

鼾掻き

Etymology

Compound of 鼾 (kutsuchi, “snoring; epilepsy”) +‎ 掻き (kaki, “making something manifest”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 掻く (kaku, “to scratch; to make manifest”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kɯ̟t͡sɨt͡ɕika̠kʲi]

Noun

鼾(くつち)掻(かき) • (kutsuchikaki)

(rare, obsolete) snoring
(rare, obsolete) an epileptic, a person who has epilepsy

Synonyms

(snoring):: 鼾(いびき) (ibiki)
(epileptic):: 癲癇持(てんかんも)ち (tenkanmochi), 癲癇持(てんかんもち) (tenkanmochi)

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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