夜船

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
夜 船
よ
Grade: 2 		ふね
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
夜舟

Etymology

From Old Japanese 夜船 (yopune).[1] Found in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[2]

Analyzable as a compound of 夜 (yo, “night”) +‎ 船 (fune, “boat, ship”).[1][3][4][5][6]

Also encountered as yobune.[1][3][4][5][6] The fune changes to bune as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

夜(よ)船(ふね) or 夜船(よぶね) • (yofune or yobune) 

  1. a boat or ship travelling at night

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3624:
    , text here
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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