小節

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See also: 小节

Chinese

small; tiny; few
small; tiny; few; young
 
festival; section; segment
festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate
 
trad. (小節) 小 節
simp. (小节) 小 节

Pronunciation

Noun

小節

  1. trivial matter
  2. (music) bar; measure
  3. paragraph; small passage

Synonyms

  • (trivial matter):

Derived terms

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
小 節
こ
Grade: 1 		ふし > ぶし
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
小節 (kyūjitai)

Compound of 小(こ) (ko, “small”) + 節(ふし) (fushi, “node; section; melody”).

First cited to a text from 1633.

Pronunciation

Noun

小(こ)節(ぶし) • (kobushi) 

  1. a small knot in wood; lumber or timber with small knots
  2. a small piece of 鰹節 (katsuo-bushi, “hard-dried skipjack tuna”)
  3. (singing) a portion of the melody in traditional Japanese singing (as well as kayōkyoku, enka) that uses melisma
    小(こ)節(ぶし)を回(まわ)す
    kobushi o mawasu
    to use melisma in the melody
See also
  • ぐいん (guin, “a Ryukyuan type of melisma”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
小 節
しょう
Grade: 1 		せつ
Grade: 4
on'yomi kan'on
Alternative spelling
小節 (kyūjitai)

Noun

小(しょう)節(せつ) • (shōsetsu) 

  1. a small part of a matter
  2. petty morality
  3. a short pause
  4. (music) a bar, a measure

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
小節

Noun

小節

  1. chữ Hán form of tiểu tiết (“trivia”)
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