三行半

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
くだり
Grade: 2
はん
Grade: 2
kun’yomi on’yomi

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Literally "three and a half lines". During the Edo period, a husband could divorce his wife by writing a formalized note consisting of three fixed lines of text.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Tokyo) くだりは [mìkúdáríháꜜǹ] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mʲikɯ̟ᵝda̠ɾʲihã̠ɴ]

Noun[edit]

()(くだり)(はん) (mikudarihan

  1. a letter of divorce given from a husband to a wife
  2. divorce

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN