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Japanese
Etymology
Analyzable as 不老 (furō, “ageless, not aging, forever young”) + 不死 (fushi, “immortal, never dying”).
Likely originally from written Chinese 不老不死. Compare modern Mandarin 不老不死 (bùlǎobùsǐ). First cited in Japanese to the Utsubo Monogatari of the late 900s.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
不老不死 • (furō fushi) ←ふらうふし (furaufusi)?
- eternal youth, perpetual youth and immortality
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References
- ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- “不老不死”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- “不老不死”, in デジタル大辞泉 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002), 明鏡国語辞典 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
Korean
Noun
不老不死 • (bullobulsa) (hangeul 불로불사)
- hanja form? of 불로불사 (“perpetual youth and longevity”)