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Chinese
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water; river
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background; bottom; base background; bottom; base; (possessive part.); (subor. part.) |
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水
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底
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| simp. #(水底)
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水
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底
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Pronunciation
Noun
水底
- bottom or bed of a body of water
Derived terms
Japanese
Etymology 1
Compound of Old Japanese elements 水 (mizu, “water”) + 底 (soko, “bottom”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
水底 • (mizusoko)
- the bottom or bed of a body of water
Etymology 2
Compound of Old Japanese elements 水 (mi, “water”) + な (na, Old Japanese possessive particle) + 底 (soko, “bottom”).[1][2]
Sometimes also read as minazoko. The soko changes to zoko as an instance of rendaku (連濁).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
水底 • (minasoko) (alternative reading hiragana みなぞこ, rōmaji minazoko)
- the bottom or bed of a body of water
Etymology 3
From Middle Chinese compound 水底 (sywijX *děi, literally “water bottom”). Compare modern Mandarin 水底 (shuǐdǐ).
Pronunciation
Noun
水底 • (suitei)
- the bottom or bed of a body of water
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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