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Japanese
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| 玉の緖 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
Literally “string of jewels” or “cord of beads”, likely in reference as jewellery or prayer beads.
The figurative sense is an extension of 玉 (tama) with cognate/homophone 魂 (tama, “soul, spirit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
玉の緒 • (tama no o) ←たまのを (tama no wo)?
- a beaded string, especially a jewelled necklace
- (idiomatic, by extension of “connecting more beads into a string”) the shortness in space of something
- (figurative) the (thread of) life, one’s own existence
- Synonyms: 命 (inochi), 生命 (seimei)
- (historical) during the Edo period, Buddhist mala beads used in Buddha worship
- Synonym of 見せばや (misebaya): Hylotelephium sieboldii, a species of stonecrop
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