味噌

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Chinese

taste sound of bells, etc; to scold; whoosh!
simp. and trad.
(味噌) 		味 噌

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 味噌 (miso).

Pronunciation

Noun

味噌

  1. miso (fermenting soybean paste)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 味噌 (“miso (fermenting soybean paste)”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 味噌
Cantonese Hong Kong 麵豉, 麵豉醬
Southern Min Taipei 豆醬, 味噌
New Taipei (Sanxia) 豆醬, mi-só-sí-luh
Kaohsiung 味噌
Yilan 豆醬, 味噌
Changhua (Lukang) 豆醬, 味噌
Taichung 味噌
Tainan 豆醬, 味噌
Hsinchu 味噌, 日本豆醬
Penghu (Magong) 味噌

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
味 噌
み
Grade: 3 		そ
Jinmeiyō
goon kan'yōon
Alternative spellings
未醤
味醤
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味噌 (miso): three different kinds of miso for sale.

Etymology

*/misau/ → */misɔ/ → /miso/

From Old Japanese. First attested in Ritsuryō tax records from 738 CE, with the spelling 未醤.

Possibly either directly from Middle Chinese 未醬 (MC mj+jH tsjangH), or a coinage in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived elements as a compound of 未 (mi, “not yet, immature”) +‎ 醬 (sō, “sauce”, the older goon reading, from even older sau).

Vovin, however, considers it to be a borrowing from Koreanic, compare Modern Korean 메주 (meju) "brick of dried fermented soybeans."

Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *misV.

Pronunciation

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Noun

味(み)噌(そ) or 味噌(ミソ) • (miso) 

  1. miso (fermented soybean paste)
  2. the innards of a crab or shrimp resembling miso
  3. the good part (from the taste of miso)
    そこがミソなんだよ。
    Soko ga miso na n da yo.
    That's the great part about it.
  4. Short for 味噌っ滓 (misokkasu): a good-for-nothing child
  5. a weakling
  6. a failure
    Synonyms: しくじり (shikujiri), 失敗 (shippai)

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Proper noun

味(み)噌(そ) • (Miso) 

  1. a surname

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Vovin, Alexander (2007) “Korean Loanwords”, in Altai Hakpo (알타이학보)‎, volume 17, pages 77-78
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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