火事

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
火 事
か
Grade: 1 		じ
Grade: 3
goon

Old Japanese 火事 (pi2 no2 ko2to2) (now spelled as 火の事 (hi no koto)), later read with 音読み (on'yomi).

Pronunciation

Noun

火(か)事(じ) • (kaji) ←くわじ (kwazi)?

  1. a fire (damaging occurrence of fire)

See also

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
火 事
Grade: 1 Grade: 3

Noun

火事(くゎし) • (kwashi) 

  1. (dialectal, Kagoshima) a fire (damaging occurrence of fire)

References

  1. ^ Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010) A History of the Japanese Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
  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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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