誕生石

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
誕 生 石
たん
Grade: 6 		しょう > じょう
Grade: 1 		せき
Grade: 1
kan'on goon kan'on
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Etymology

Compound of 誕生 (tanjō, “birth”) +‎ 石 (seki, “stone”).

Pronunciation

Noun

誕(たん)生(じょう)石(せき) • (tanjōseki) ←たんじやうせき (tanzyauseki)?

  1. a birthstone
    • 2007 March 15, Gosho Aoyama, “ゴールデン・アイの巻(まき)【前(ぜん)編(ぺん)】 [Golden Eye ]”, in まじっく快(かい)斗(と) (まじっく快(かい)斗(と)) [Magic Kaito], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN:
      少(しょう)女(じょ)の誕(たん)生(じょう)石(せき)をサファイアだと聞(き)いてあなたは誕(たん)生(じょう)日(び)が近(ちか)いと答(こた)えた
      Shōjo no tanjōseki o safaia da to kiite anata wa tanjōbi ga chikai to kotaeta
      You replied that your birthdays were close when she said her birthstone was sapphire

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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