譬え話

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
たと
Hyōgai
はなし > ばなし
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
例え話
たとえ話
 たとえ話 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

From (たと) (tatoe, example) + (はなし) (hanashi, narrative). The hanashi changes to banashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

(たと)(ばなし) (tatoebanashiたとへばなし (tatofebanasi)?

  1. (rhetoric) a parable

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN