ボタン

Japanese[edit]

Alternative spellings
釦 (rare) 鈕 (rare)

First cited to 1651.^[1]

ボタン • (botan)

[from 1651] a button (clothing)
[from 1885] a button (mechanical device)
Synonym: 押しボタン (oshi-botan, literally “push-button”)

For pronunciation and definitions of ボタン – see the following entry.

[noun] a peony, especially the Chinese tree peony, Paeonia suffruticosa

[noun] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of peony petals and twigs

[proper noun] a place name

[proper noun] a surname

[proper noun] a female given name

(This term, ボタン, is the katakana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as ボタン, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ボタン.)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “鈕・釦”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN