八百万
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Japanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 八 | 百 | 万 |
| や Grade: 1 |
お Grade: 1 |
よろず Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi | ||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 八百萬 (kyūjitai) |
八百 (yao, “eight hundred”) + 万 (yorozu, “ten thousand”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Tokyo) やおよろず [yàóyóꜜròzù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
- (Tokyo) やおよろず [yàóyórózú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [ja̠o̞jo̞ɾo̞zɨᵝ]
Noun[edit]
八百万 • (yaoyorozu) ←やほよろづ (yafoyorodu)?
- (Shinto) eight million, used to depict the number of kami
- a myriad; a multitude; a countless large number or amount
Derived terms[edit]
- 八百万の神 (yaoyorozu no kami, “all the deities”)
References[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 八 read as や
- Japanese terms spelled with 百 read as お
- Japanese terms spelled with 万 read as よろず
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms historically spelled with づ
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with three Han script characters
- ja:Shinto