物語

See also: 物语

Chinese

		thing; object; matter	speech; language; dialect speech; language; dialect; tell to
trad. (物語)		物	語
simp. (物语)		物	语

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wùyǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ ㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mat⁶ jyu⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bu̍t-gú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wùyǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ ㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wùyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴-yü³
    • Yale: wù-yǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuhyeu
    • Palladius: уюй (ujuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mat⁶ jyu⁵
    • Yale: maht yúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁹ jy⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: med⁶ yu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚² jyː¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bu̍t-gú
    • Tâi-lô: bu̍t-gú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: budguo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /but̚²⁴⁻² ɡu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /but̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 物語

1. tale; story; legend
2. monogatari

Synonyms

• (tale): 故事 (gùshi); (Cantonese) 古仔

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
物	語
もの Grade: 3	かた(り) > がた(り) Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Noun

物(もの)語(がたり) • (monogatari) 

1. a tale; a story

   源(げん)氏(じ)物(もの)語(がたり)

   Genji Monogatari

   The Tale of Genji

   指(ゆび)輪(わ)物(もの)語(がたり)

   Yubiwa Monogatari

   The Tale of the Rings

   パイの物(もの)語(がたり)

   Pai no Monogatari

   Story of Pi

   • 1998 December 18 [1977 August 15], Fyodor Dostoyevsky with Tezuka, Osamu, 罪と罰 [Crime and Punishment], 10th edition (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 8:

     この物語は革命前夜の帝政ロシアにおいて退廃と貧困にあけくれたぺテルブルグの町に起こった……

     Kono monogatari wa kakumei zen’ya no teisei Roshia ni oite taihan to hinkon ni akekureta Peteruburugu no machi ni okotta……

     This story takes place on the eve of a revolution, in the town of Petersburg where there is but decadence and poverty under the rule of the Russian monarchy……

Usage notes

Refers especially to a fictional or fictionalized narrative, the Japanese equivalent of the Western epic, although not in poetical form and of much shorter length.

Coordinate terms

• 逸話(いつわ) (itsuwa): anecdotes
• お話(はなし) (ohanashi): talking story
• 寓話(ぐうわ) (gūwa): allegory
• 自伝(じでん) (jiden): autobiography
• 神話(しんわ) (shinwa): myth

• 説話(せつわ) (setsuwa): narrative
• 伝説(でんせつ) (densetsu): legend
• 童話(どうわ) (dōwa): fairytale
• 法話(ほうわ) (hōwa): Buddhist sermon
• 民話(みんわ) (minwa): folklore
• 夢物語(ゆめものがたり) (yumemonogatari): pipe dream

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.