母型
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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母 | 型 |
ぼ Grade: 2 |
けい Grade: 5 |
kan’yōon | kan’on |
Etymology edit
Compound of 母 (bo, “mother”) + 型 (kei, “form, shape”).[1][2][3] First cited to a printing-industry text from 1966.[1]
Compare English matrix, from Latin mātrīx from māter (“mother”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- [from 1966] (printing) a matrix (mold) or die for casting an individual character sort
- Synonym: 字母 (jibo)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “母型”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ “母型”, in デジタル大辞泉[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN