中納言
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Japanese
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 中 | 納 | 言 |
| ちゅう Grade: 1 |
な Grade: 6 |
ごん Grade: 2 |
| on’yomi | kan’yōon | goon |
Compound of 中 (chū, “middle”) + 納言 (nagon, “counselor”, on-reading of monomōsu-tsukasa).
Pronunciation
Noun
- (politics, historical) a middle counselor in the 太政官 (Daijō-kan, “Great Council of State”)
- late 9th century, Ise Monogatari (section 69)
- 中将のことなむ言ひける。兄の中納言、行平のむすめの腹なり。
- Chūjō no koto nan iikeru. Ani no chūnagon, Yukihira no musume no hara nari.
- (please add an English translation of this example)
- 中将のことなむ言ひける。兄の中納言、行平のむすめの腹なり。
- late 9th century, Ise Monogatari (section 69)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 石上中納言 (Isonokami no Chūnagon)
- 建春門院中納言日記 (Kenshun-mon'in no Chūnagon Nikki)
- 権中納言 (gon-chūnagon, “acting middle counselor”)
- 権の中納言 (gon no chūnagon)
- 桜町中納言 (Sakuramachi no Chūnagon, courtesy name of Fujiwara no Shigenori)
- 堤中納言 (Tsutsumi Chūnagon, courtesy name of Fujiwara no Kanesuke)
- 浜松中納言物語 (Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari)
See also
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 中 | 納 | 言 |
| なか Grade: 1 |
ものもうすつかさ | |
| Grade: 6 | Grade: 2 | |
| kun’yomi | jukujikun | |
Compound of 中 (naka, “middle”) + の (no, attributive particle) + 納言 (monomōsu-tsukasa, “counselor”).
Noun
中納言 • (naka no monomōsu-tsukasa) ←なかのものまうすつかさ (nakanomonomausutukasa)?
- (politics, historical, archaic) a middle counselor in the 太政官 (Ōimatsurigoto no Tsukasa, “Great Council of State”)
- 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume book 5:
- 中納言 二方品云：令外置中納言［奈加乃毛乃萬宇須豆加佐］
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
- 大納言 (ōi monomōsu-tsukasa, “chief counselor”)
- 少納言 (sunai monomōsu-tsukasa, “lesser counselor”)
Etymology 3
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 中 | 納 | 言 |
| すけのものもうすつかさ | ||
| Grade: 1 | Grade: 6 | Grade: 2 |
| jukujikun | ||
Compound of 助け (suke, “assistance, support”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of classical verb 助く (suku), modern 助ける (sukeru), “to assist, support”) + の (no, attributive particle) + 納言 (monomōsu-tsukasa, “counselor”).
Noun
中納言 • (suke no monomōsu-tsukasa) ←すけのものまうすつかさ (sukenomonomausutukasa)?
- (politics, historical, archaic) a middle counselor in the 太政官 (Ōimatsurigoto no Tsukasa, “Great Council of State”)