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Japanese
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| 文鎭 (kyūjitai)
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Pronunciation
Noun
文鎮 • (bunchin)
- paperweight
- 1912, 夏目漱石, 彼岸過迄:
- 彼は机の上にあった重い文鎮を取って、突然これで人が殺せるだろうかと尋ねた。
- Kare wa tsukue no ue ni atta omoi bunchin o totte, totsuzen kore de hito ga koroseru darō ka to tazuneta.
- He picked up the heavy paperweight on top of the desk and asked out of the blue if one could kill a person with it.
- (computing slang, figurative) brick (an electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN