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果物

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Etymology 1

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 果物 on Japanese Wikipedia
果物 (kudamono, kabutsu): various kinds of fruit.
Kanji in this term
Grade: 4 もの
Grade: 3
irregular kun'yomi

Literally “tree's thing”. Originally a compound of (ku, tree, shift from ancient ko pronunciation) +‎ (da, possessive marker between two nouns, only found in a few compounds) +‎ (mono, thing).[1][2]

The medial da is also seen in (kedamono, beast, literally hairy thing). The kanji is jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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果物(くだもの) (kudamono

  1. edible fruit that grows on trees or shrubs, such as oranges and apples, or sweet edible fruit that grows along the ground, such as strawberries and melons
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
ぶつ
Grade: 3
kan'on

/kwabut͡su//kabut͡su/

Possibly from Middle Chinese compound 果物 (*kuɑ *miuət, literally fruit thing). Compare modern Mandarin 果物 reading guǒwù (rare), Cantonese gwo2 mat6 (rare).

Rarely used in modern Japanese.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()(ぶつ) (kabutsuくわぶつ (kwabutu)?

  1. (rare) fruit
Usage notes
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The kudamono reading is much more common in modern Japanese.

References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN