御中

Japanese

Alternative forms

• お腹, 御腹 ("stomach" sense only)

Etymology

御 (“honorific prefix”) +‎ 中 (“middle”)

Noun

御中 (hiragana おなか, romaji onaka)

1. (originally nyōbō kotoba) abdomen, belly, stomach
2. (in nyōbō kotoba, the secret language of court ladies) a meal, especially of rice
3. (in nyōbō kotoba, the secret language of court ladies) cotton
4. the title of a maid working in the inner part of a military family's house during the Muromachi era