貝殻
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 貝 | 殻 |
| かい Grade: 1 |
から > がら Grade: S |
| kun’yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 貝殼 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 貝 (kai, “shellfish”) + 殻 (kara, “shell”). The kara changes to gara as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Tokyo) かいがら [kàígáꜜrà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2]
- (Tokyo) かいがら [kàígárá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [ka̠iɡa̠ɾa̠]
Noun[edit]
貝殻 • (kaigara) ←かひがら (kafigara)?
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
- 貝殻島 (Kaigarajima)
- 貝殻追放 (kaigara tsuihō, “ostracism”)
- 貝殻節 (kaigara-bushi)
- 貝殻骨 (kaigara-bone)
- 貝殻虫 (kaigaramushi)
Proper noun[edit]
貝殻 • (Kaigara) ←かひがら (kafigara)?
- a place name
- a surname
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 貝 read as かい
- Japanese terms spelled with 殻 read as から
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese surnames
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