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Japanese
Etymology
/kikʷaku/ → /kikaku/
From Middle Chinese 葵藿 (MC gjwij xwak), itself likely first attested from a poem by Jiang Yan.[1]
Noun
葵藿 • (kikaku) ←きくわく (kikwaku)?
- Synonym of 冬葵 (fuyuaoi): the Chinese or cluster mallow, Malva verticillata
- (by extension, figurative) an illustration of respect towards (or longing for) a lord or other person of high virtue (as if a mallow tilts itself towards the sun)
- (book 5, introduction to poem 864),[3] text here
[...] 宜戀レ主之誠、誠逾二犬馬一仰レ德之心、心同二葵藿一。[...]- Yoroshi's yearning for his master is sincere, one exceeding that of a dog for its horse; looking up with virtue on his mind, that mind the same as if were Chinese mallows.
- any crude vegetable
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Tsukishima, Hiroshi (c. 796-830) Kotenseki Sakuin Sōsho Dai 8-kan: Tōdaiji Fujumonkō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 2001, →ISBN
- ^ Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.