混凝土

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Chinese

to mix; to get along; thoughtless
to mix; to get along; thoughtless; confused; dirty; mix
 
 congeal; concentrate attention
earth; dust; rural
earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
 
trad. (混凝土) 混 凝 土
simp. #(混凝土) 混 凝 土

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 混(コン)凝(クリー)土(ト) (konkurīto), in turn from English concrete.

Pronunciation

Note: khōng-ku-lí - from Japanese pronunciation.

Noun

混凝土

  1. concrete (building material)

Synonyms

  • 三合土 (sānhétǔ, “lime-sand-clay mixture”)
  • 三和土 (1se-wu-thu) (Shanghainese)
  • 灰塗 / 灰涂 (“lime-sand-clay mixture”) (Hokkien)
  • 石屎 (shíshǐ) (chiefly Cantonese)
  • 砼 (tóng) (technical)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
混 凝 土
こん
Grade: 5
(ateji) 		こり > くりー
Grade: S 		と
Grade: 1
on'yomi irregular kan'on
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Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English concrete: from 混(こん) (kon, “to blend; to mix”) + 凝(こり) (kori, “congealing”) + 土(と) (to, “dirt; soil”); coined by Isami Hiroi (広井勇).

For pronunciation and definitions of 混凝土 – see the following entry.
【コンクリート】
concrete (building material)
(This term, 混凝土, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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