三行半
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Japanese[edit]
Kanji in this term | ||
---|---|---|
三 | 行 | 半 |
み 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]
Noun[edit]
三行半 • (mikudarihan)
- a letter of divorce given from a husband to a wife
- divorce
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Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 三 read as み
- Japanese terms spelled with 行 read as くだり
- Japanese terms spelled with 半 read as はん
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with three Han script characters