雪女
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雪女 (yuki onna): a depiction of a yuki onna from a 1781 publication.
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 雪 | 女 |
| ゆき Grade: 2 |
おんな Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi | |
Etymology
Compound of 雪 (yuki, “snow”) + 女 (onna, “woman”). First mentioned in a text from the late 1500s.
Pronunciation
Noun
雪女 • (yuki onna) ←ゆきをんな (yukiwonna)?
- yuki-onna (“snow-woman”): spirit of a woman who perished out in the snow
- 1888, Okamoto Kido, “Kago tsurube”, in Aozora, published 2008:
- 傘も持たないで門に立ったのは妹のお光であった。雪はますます強くなって来たらしく、彼女の総身は雪女のように真っ白に塗られていた。
- Kasa mo motanai de kado ni tatta no wa imōto no ohikari de atta. Yuki wa masumasu tsuyoku natte kita rashiku, kanojo no sōshin wa yuki onna no yō ni masshiro ni nurarete ita.
- Standing in the entrance without holding even an umbrella was his younger sister Ohikari. It seemed like the snow had become increasingly stronger; her whole body was painted with snow, like a yuki-onna.
- 傘も持たないで門に立ったのは妹のお光であった。雪はますます強くなって来たらしく、彼女の総身は雪女のように真っ白に塗られていた。
See also
雪女 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja- Yuki-onna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 雪男 (yuki otoko): abominable snowman (modern calque from English, not related to the mythology of the 雪女)
- 雨女 (ame onna): a woman whose presence always seems to bring rain
- 雨男 (ame otoko): a man whose presence always seems to bring rain
- 骨女 (hone onna): a female apparition who appears as a skeletal woman
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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