草原

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Chinese

grass; straw; draft (of a document)
grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
 
 plain
trad. (草原) 草 原
simp. #(草原) 草 原

Pronunciation

Noun

草原

  1. grassland; prairie; steppe; savanna

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
草 原
そう
Grade: 1 		げん
Grade: 2
on'yomi kan'on

Might be a learned borrowing from Chinese 草原 (cǎoyuán). Alternatively, it might be a reanalysis of 草原 (kusahara), applying the expected on'yomi to the spelling to imbue the term with a higher register.

First cited with this sōgen reading to a newspaper article published in 1871.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

草(そう)原(げん) • (sōgen) ←さうげん (saugen)?

  1. grassland, meadow
    • 2014 March 8, “ルイーズ (Ruīzu, “Louise”)”, in 決闘王の記憶 － 決闘者の王国編 (“Memories of the Duel King: Duelist Kingdom Arc”), Konami:
      体(からだ)は小(ちい)さいが、草(そう)原(げん)での守(しゅ)備(び)力(りょく)はかなり強(つよ)い。
      Karada wa chīsai ga, sōgen de no shubiryoku wa kanari tsuyoi.
      It may be small, but its defense strength is considerable in grasslands.
  2. steppe, savanna, prairie

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
草 原
くさ
Grade: 1 		わら
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Kanji in this term
草 原
くさ
Grade: 1 		はら
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Compound of 草 (kusa, “grass”) +‎ 原 (hara, “wild or uncultivated field, plain, flatland”).[1][2][3][5][6]

First cited with the kusahara reading to a text from the late 1500s.[1]

Occasionally encountered with an alternative reading of kusawara.[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

草(くさ)原(はら) or 草(くさ)原(わら) • (kusahara or kusawara) 

  1. grassland, meadow

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “草原”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 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
  5. ^ “草原”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  6. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
草原

Noun

草原 • (chowon) (hangeul 초원)

  1. hanja form? of 초원 (“grassland”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
草原

Noun

草原

  1. chữ Hán form of thảo nguyên (“grassland; steppe”).
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