弥生
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See also: 彌生
Chinese
| For pronunciation and definitions of 弥生 – see 彌生 (“Yayoi, Tokyo, Japan; the former town of Yayoi, Ōita, Japan”). (This term is the simplified form of 彌生). |
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Japanese
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 弥 | 生 |
| や Grade: S |
お(い) > よ(い) Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 彌生 (kyūjitai) |
/ijaopi/ → /ijaofi/ → */jaofi/ → /jajofi/ → /jajowi/ → /jajoi/
Shift from iyaoi below.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
Coordinate terms: 睦月, 如月, 弥生, 卯月, 皐月, 水無月, 文月, 葉月, 長月, 神無月, 霜月, 師走
Derived terms
Proper noun
- a Kamikaze-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Hypernym: 神風 (Kamikaze)
- a Mutsuki-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, see
Japanese destroyer Yayoi (1925) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hypernym: 睦月 (Mutsuki)
- a placename, especially the name of a district in Bunkyō Ward, Tokyo
- a female given name
- 1997 October 17, Seimaru Amagi with Kanari, Yozaburo and Sato, Fumiya, “ファイル18 魔神遺跡殺人事件⑪ [File 18: The Demonic Ruins Murder Case ⑪]”, in 金田一少年の事件簿 [Young Kindaichi Case Files], volume 26 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 105:
- 三月に生まれた私が「弥生」だから 五月に生まれたあなたは「さつき」にしようって———
- Sangatsu ni umareta watashi ga “Yayoi” da kara Gogatsu ni umareta anata wa “Satsuki” ni shiyōtte———
- I’m “Yayoi” because I was born in March. We named you “Satsuki” because you were born in May———
- 三月に生まれた私が「弥生」だから 五月に生まれたあなたは「さつき」にしようって———
- a surname
Derived terms
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 弥 | 生 |
| いや Grade: S |
お(い) Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 彌生 (kyūjitai) |
Possibly from Old Japanese.
Derived from adverb 弥 (iya, “very”) + 生ひ (ofi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of classical verb 生ふ (ofu), “to grow”; modern spellings 生い (oi), 生う (ou)).
Noun
- (of vegetation) thick growth
- (obsolete) the third month of the lunar calendar
Derived terms
- 弥生の月 (iyaoi no tsuki)
Coordinate terms
- (Japanese calendar months) 睦月 (mutsuki), 如月 (kisaragi), 弥生 (yayoi), 卯月 (uzuki), 皐月 (satsuki), 水無月 (minazuki), 文月 (fumizuki), 葉月 (hazuki), 長月 (nagatsuki), 神無月 (kannazuki), 霜月 (shimotsuki), 師走 (shiwasu) (Category: ja:Japanese calendar months)
See also
See also
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third 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