六腑

Japanese

Kanji in this term
六	腑
ろく > ろっ Grade: 1	ふ > ぷ Hyōgaiji
goon

Etymology

Literary Chinese 六腑

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ろ​っぷ [róꜜppù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) ろっぷ [ròppú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɾo̞p̚pɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

六(ろっ)腑(ぷ) • (roppu) ^{←ろくふ (rokufu)?}

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) the six fu (classes of "yang", hollow organs)

   Holonym: 五臓六腑

   Meronyms: 胃 (i, “stomach”), 三焦 (sanshō, “triple burner”), 小腸 (shōchō, “small intestine”), 大腸 (daichō, “large intestine”), 胆 (tan, “gallbladder”), 膀胱 (bōkō, “urinary bladder”)

   Coordinate term: 五臓 (gozō)