さかずき

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Alternative spellings
盃杯巵 (less common) 盞 (less common) 坏 (less common) 酒坏酒盃

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Rice wine cup

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さかずき (sakazuki): a pile of three sake cups on the left

Compound of 酒 (saka, combining form of sake, “Japanese rice wine”) +‎ 坏 (tsuki, “shallow bowl”).^[1]^[2]^[3] The tsuki changes to zuki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

さかずき • (sakazuki) ^{←さかづき (sakaduki)^?}

a sake cup
- 1901, “Kōjō no Tsuki [Moon over the Ruined Castle]”, Bansui Doi (lyrics), Rentarō Taki (music):
  
  春(はる)高(かう)楼(ろう)の花(はな)の宴(えん)　めぐる盃(さかづき)かげさして
  haru kōrō no hana no en meguru sakazuki kage sashite
  On the high tower in spring at a cherry-banquet, sake cups are exchanged while a shadow is being cast.
Short for 杯事 (sakazukigoto): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
an exchange of cups at a drinking party

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN