源氏
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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源 | 氏 |
げん Grade: 6 |
し > じ Grade: 4 |
kan'on |
Etymology
From 源 (gen, on-reading of minamoto, literally “fountainhead, source”) + 氏 (-shi, “family”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
- any family or clan with a common surname of 源 (Minamoto)
- Synonym: 源家 (Genke)
- Short for 源氏行 (Genji-kō): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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. - Short for 源氏香 (Genji-kō): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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. - Short for 源氏絵 (Genji-e): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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. - Short for 源氏織り (Genji-ori): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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. - (archaic women's speech) Synonym of 夕顔 (yūgao): the calabash or bottle gourd, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.
- (archaic women's speech) Synonym of 茄子 (nasu): the eggplant, Solanum melongena
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Derived terms
Derived terms
Proper noun
- Short for 源氏物語 (Genji Monogatari): The Tale of Genji, a novel by Murasaki Shikibu
- Short for 光源氏 (Hikaru Genji): the titular protagonist of the novel
- a placename
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Derived terms
Derived terms
Proverbs
- 桐壺源氏 (Kiritsubo Genji)
References
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 源 read as げん
- Japanese terms spelled with 氏 read as し
- Japanese terms read with kan'on
- Japanese terms suffixed with 氏
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- Japanese short forms
- Japanese terms with archaic senses
- Japanese women's speech terms
- Japanese slang
- Japanese proper nouns