金槌
Japanese
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Kanji in this term | |
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金 | 槌 |
かな Grade: 1 |
つち > づち Jinmeiyō |
kun'yomi |
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compound of 金 (kana, “metal”) + 槌 (tsuchi, “hammer, mallet”). The tsuchi changes to zuchi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
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Noun
- a hammer with at least a metal head, or possibly made entirely of metal
- (figurative) someone who cannot swim at all (as a metal hammer sinks quickly in water)
References
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 金 read as かな
- Japanese terms spelled with 槌 read as つち
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji