風見鶏

Japanese

Kanji in this term
風	見	鶏
かざ Grade: 2	み Grade: 1	とり > どり Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
風見鷄 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 風(かざ)見(み) (kazami, “anemoscope”) + 鶏(とり) (tori, “chicken”). The tori changes to dori as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠za̠mʲido̞ɾʲi]
• (Tokyo) かざみどり [kàzámíꜜdòrì] (Nakadaka – [3])

Noun

風(かざ)見(み)鶏(どり) • (kazamidori) 

1. a weathercock (weather vane)

   Synonyms: 風見 (kazami, “weather vane”), 風向計 (fūkōkei, “anemoscope”)

   • 2002 July 27, Mashiba, Shin, “第(だい)壱(いち)夜(や)　下(クダ)リ階(カイ)段(ダン) [Night 1: Downward Stairway]”, in 夢(ゆめ)喰(くい)見(けん)聞(ぶん) [The Dream-Eating Inspector], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Square Enix, page 24:

     そうですか…夢(ゆめ)と違(ちが)っていたのは僕(ぼく)が人(にん)間(げん)ではなく現(げん)実(じつ)では風(かざ)見(み)鶏(どり)なったという事(こと)だけですね　本(ほん)当(とう)にお嬢(じょう)様(さま)は手(て(・))の(・)届(とど(・))か(・)な(・)い(・)存(そん)在(ざい)でした

     Sō desu ka… Yume to chigatteita no wa boku ga ningen de wa naku genjitsu de wa kazamidori natta to iu koto dake desu ne Hontō ni ojō-sama wa TE NO TODOKA NAI sonzai deshita

     Is this really… I was a human in my dream, but it turns out I’m really just a weather vane. In actuality, Miss was always somewhere I COULD NEVER REACH.

References

• “風見^△鶏”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026