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Chinese
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to blow; blast; puff to blow; blast; puff; boast; brag; end in failure
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snow
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trad. (吹雪)
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吹
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雪
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simp. #(吹雪)
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吹
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雪
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Pronunciation
Noun
吹雪
- (meteorology) drifting snow or blowing snow
Derived terms
Japanese
Alternative spellings
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乱吹 吹雪き
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Etymology
The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 吹雪く (fubuku, “to blow violently (said of wind); to blow a snowstorm”).[1][2][3]
The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 吹雪 (chuīxuě).
Pronunciation
Noun
吹雪 • (fubuki)
- a blizzard, a snowstorm
- Synonyms: ブリザード (burizādo), 暴風雪 (bōfūsetsu), 雪嵐 (yukiarashi), 雪吹雪 (yuki fubuki)
- 私たちは山で厳しい吹雪に見舞われた。
- Watashitachi wa yama de kibishii fubuki ni mimawareta.
- We encountered a severe blizzard on the mountain.
- many flat objects blown away by the wind, like snowflakes in a blizzard
- 花吹雪
- hanafubuki
- a flurry of cherry blossoms
Derived terms
Proper noun
吹雪 • (Fubuki)
- a Harusame-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War
- Hypernym: 春雨 (Harusame)
- a class of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Fubuki-class destroyer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- a Fubuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- a female given name
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN