男の子
Japanese edit
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 男 | 子 |
| おとこ Grade: 1 |
こ Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | |
Etymology edit
Compound of 男 (otoko, “man; male”) + の (no, appositional particle) + 子 (ko, “child”).[1][2][3]
First cited to a text from 1711.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- [from 1711] a boy
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References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “男の子”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ “男の子”, 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
- ^ 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN