風呂

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Chinese

wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
 surname
trad. (風呂) 風 呂
simp. (风吕) 风 吕

Etymology 1

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 風呂(ふろ) (furo).

Pronunciation

Noun

風呂

  1. Japanese-style bath

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 風呂(ふろ) (furo).

Pronunciation

Noun

風呂

  1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) bathtub

Japanese

Kanji in this term
風 呂
ふ
Grade: 2
(ateji) 		ろ
Grade: S
(ateji)
goon

Etymology

Shift from 室 (muro, “cellar”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

風(ふ)呂(ろ) • (furo) 

  1. bath; bathtub
    • 2008 October 8, Saki Hasemi with Yabuki, Kentaro, “とらぶる94　とらぶるくえすと２ [TLOVEl 94: TLOVEl Quest 2]”, in ＴｏＬＯＶＥる　—とらぶる— [ToLOVEru —TLOVEl—], volume 11 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 123:
      ゲームのキャラがお風(ふ)呂(ろ)入(はい)るなんておかしいと思(おも)う？
      Gēmu no kyara ga ofuro hairu nan te okashī to omō?
      Don’t you think it’s weird that a video game character takes a fancy bath?

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References

  1. ^ “風呂”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  2. ^ 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
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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